Lord Acton Quotes (14 quotations)
1. And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton
2. If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. - Lord Acton
3. I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. - Lord Acton
4. 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
5. Learn as much by writing as by reading. - Lord Acton
6. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. - Lord Acton
7. Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. - Lord Acton
8. Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. - Lord Acton
9. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. - Lord Acton
10. Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton
11. The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. - Lord Acton
12. The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. - Lord Acton
13. 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
14. The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. - Lord Acton
2. If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. - Lord Acton
3. I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. - Lord Acton
4. 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
5. Learn as much by writing as by reading. - Lord Acton
6. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. - Lord Acton
7. Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. - Lord Acton
8. Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. - Lord Acton
9. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. - Lord Acton
10. Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton
11. The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. - Lord Acton
12. The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. - Lord Acton
13. 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
14. The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. - Lord Acton
