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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.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Great men are almost always bad men.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.
— Leonard Ravenhill
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
Things aren't different. Things are things.
— William Gibson
If you study of scriptures, you find sacredness of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Performing abroad is ambassadorial.
— Robert Battle
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Life is a one-way journey towards the unknown and without a destination.
— Debasish Mridha
Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
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
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
I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.
— George Harrison
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
The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.
— Mervyn King
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
Tears are the body's raindrops of emotion.
— Robert M. Hensel
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
A powerful thing, destiny. You can't run from it. Not in the end.
— Richard C. Morais
Judge talent at its best but character at its worst.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton