"History is not only a particular branch of……" — Lord Acton
"History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches."
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95 Quotes by Lord Acton
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest…
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed…
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality…
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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the…
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the…
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear…
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More Branch Quotes
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The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy.…
— Julian Bond
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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books…
— Anthony Burgess
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The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
— George W. Bush
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You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you…
— Rosalynn Carter
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the…
— Marc Chagall
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let…
— Yasser Arafat
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The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence…
— Michelangelo
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For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be…
— Martin Luther
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I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the…
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made…
— Trey Gowdy
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The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested…
— James Madison
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