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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
— Ingrid Bergman
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Great men are almost always bad men.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Pity party over?""Yeah, I think so."
"Good. Not good to wallow for too long. It's bad for the complextion. — Cynthia Hand
Our dead come for their vengeance regardless of witnesses
— Madeline Miller
I do not punish my enemies with arrogance; I punish ,them, undoubtedly more subtle - with devoted respect.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Don't gain the world and lose your ...
— Bob Marley
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
There's no question that consumers are looking for value today.
— Irene Rosenfeld
The object of civil society is justice, not truth, virtue, wealth, knowledge, glory or power. Justice is followed by equality and liberty.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Well, do a good day's work and act like somebody.
— Andy Griffith
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Judge talent at its best but character at its worst.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton