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Inspirational Quotes by Lord Acton
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
- There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
- The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
- There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
- Official truth is not actual truth.
- Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
- Progress, the religion of those who have none.
- Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
- It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
- A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
- Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.
- Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
- Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
- The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.
- Great men are almost always bad men.
- History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
- No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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