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Liberty Quotes by Lord Acton
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
- Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
- By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of…
- Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to…
- Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime...
- At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities....
- Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
- 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,…
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the sake of a…
- Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.
- Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
- Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
- Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
- In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of…
- The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
- Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
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- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is the prevention of control by others. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton