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People Quotes by Lord Acton
- The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
- The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
- There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
- It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
- 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…
- There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot…
- The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle