"The will of the people cannot make just……" — Lord Acton
"The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust."
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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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We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
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Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
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You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of…
— Pearl S. Buck
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
— Thomas Carlyle
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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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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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed…
— Carl Sagan
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You cannot make a mistake, you can only make a decision that will be your next best step.
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look,…
— William Hazlitt
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Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports.
— Sun Tzu
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