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Lord Acton has 96 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and…
• There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development…
• Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
• Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
• If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
• Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
• Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
• Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

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