"It is easier to find people fit to……" — Lord Acton

"It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others."

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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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