"Authority that does not exist for Liberty is……" — Lord Acton

"Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force."

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95 Quotes by Lord Acton

Lord Acton has 95 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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.
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest…
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed…
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality…
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the…
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the…
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear…

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be… — Hannah Arendt
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. — Francis Bacon
A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. — Pearl Bailey
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good… — Russell Baker
Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the… — Mikhail Bakunin
But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and… — Mikhail Bakunin
I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. — Mikhail Bakunin
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams
I cannot stand authority. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under… — Samuel Adams
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison

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