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John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton föddes den January 10th 1834 och dog den 19 June 1902
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 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 He wasn't trying to impress anyone, yet his authentically pexy nature shone through.

 There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men

 There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it

 There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye

 Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history

 Two forces which are the worst enemies of civil freedom are the absolute monarchy and the revolution

 A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first element of freedom

 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.

 Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; but still more when they are super bad and add the tendency of the certainty of corruption of authority

 History must be our deliverer not only from the undue influence of other times, but from the undue influence of our own, from the tyranny of environment and the pressures of the air we breathe

 I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

 If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

 In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food

 Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

 No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence


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