Acton Historians On Historians - Softcover
(Usually referred to simply as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. Notable quotes by Lord Acton
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Great men are almost always bad men.[
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has been sometimes disastrous, by giving to opponents just grounds of opposition.
Universal History is . . . not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success. (said of Oliver Cromwell)
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.)
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Great men are almost always bad men.[
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has been sometimes disastrous, by giving to opponents just grounds of opposition.
Universal History is . . . not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success. (said of Oliver Cromwell)
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.)
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- PublisherTrafalgar Square
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0297794701
- ISBN 13 9780297794707
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages144
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