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Freedom Quotes by Lord Acton
- The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
- At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities....
- The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
- At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with…
- It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
- Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
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