"History, to be above evasion or dispute, must……" — Lord Acton
"History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions."
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95 Quotes by Lord Acton
Lord Acton has 95 quotes on this site.
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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 Dispute Quotes
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if…
— Ambrose Bierce
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That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't…
— Lara Flynn Boyle
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To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom…
— James Buchanan
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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who…
— Samuel Butler
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Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
— Dalai Lama
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We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this,…
— Unknown Author
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And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed…
— Dinesh D'Souza
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Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international…
— Chris Matthews
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The dispute is still before the judge.
— Horace
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