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The danger is not that a particular
class is unfit to govern -
every class is unfit to govern
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Quotes by Lord Acton »
- Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great
men are almost always bad men.
- There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another,
either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
- 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.
- Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others;
have no favourites.
- [History is] not a burden on the memory but an illumination of
the soul.
- The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to
be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every
class is unfit to govern.
- Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do
what we ought.
- There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among
the ablest men.
- Socialism means slavery.
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