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The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. - Lord Acton Quotes

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

British Historian Country

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. - Lord Acton Quotes

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

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Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. - Lord Acton Quotes

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

British Historian Man

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. - Lord Acton Quotes

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

British Historian Democracy

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. - Lord Acton Quotes

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

British Historian Ignorance

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton Quotes

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. - Lord Acton Quotes

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

British Historian Justice

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason. - Lord Acton Quotes

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. - Lord Acton Quotes

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

British Historian Liberty

Learn as much by writing as by reading. - Lord Acton Quotes

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

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