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Absolute Quotes by Lord Acton
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still…
- Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power…
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike,…
- Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of…
- It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of…
- The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by…
- Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
- I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.…
- There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's John F. Kennedys…
- Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Power corrupts.Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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