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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority.
— Lord Acton
I found bossing other people about such a delightful novelty that I had to remind myself of Lord Acton's famous axiom about its tendency to corrupt.
— Victoria Clayton
Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.
— Lord Acton
Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
— Lord Acton
We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
— Lord Acton
Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
— Lord Acton
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
— Lord Acton
The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.
— Lord Acton
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
— Lord Acton
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime ...
— Lord Acton
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
— Lord Acton
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
— Lord Acton
There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
— Lord Acton
Towns were the nursery of freedom.
— Lord Acton
Every class is unfit to govern.
— Lord Acton
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
— Lord Acton
Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
— Lord Acton
Progress, the religion of those who have none.
— Lord Acton
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
— Lord Acton
The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
— Lord Acton
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
— Lord Acton
Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton
— Harold Holzer
The mills of God grind slowly.
— Lord Acton
Socialism means slavery.
— Lord Acton
Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
— Lord Acton
Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.
— Lord Acton
Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.
— Lord Acton
Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.
— Lord Acton
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
— Lord Acton
A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.
— Lord Acton
Official truth is not actual truth.
— Lord Acton
Before men can find peace and harmony within themselves they must first fall in love with their country.
— Lord Acton
Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
— Lord Acton
