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Power Quotes by Lord Acton
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History…
- The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of…
- Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
- Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still…
- 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,…
- Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of…
- Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.
- 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…
- Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
- 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…
- I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.…
- Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
- There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's John F. Kennedys…
- Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
- Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
- Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Power corrupts.Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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