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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
I love thee, as I love the calmOf sweet, star-lighted hours!
I love thee, as I love the balm
Of early jest 'mine flowers. — Eliza Acton
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Great men are almost always bad men.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
— John Acton
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
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
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
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
The best part of working with Facebook has been the cross-fertilization of ideas, people, and technology.
— Brian Acton
Building secure products actually makes for a safer world; many people in law enforcement may not agree with that.
— Brian Acton
The object of civil society is justice, not truth, virtue, wealth, knowledge, glory or power. Justice is followed by equality and liberty.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
— Lord Acton
Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.
— Lord Acton
Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
— 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
Before men can find peace and harmony within themselves they must first fall in love with their country.
— Lord Acton
The greatest men, you can quote for everything.
— John Acton
Every class is unfit to govern.
— Lord Acton
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
— Lord Acton
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Companies that have been built and operated for a long time are the most successful companies.
— Brian Acton
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
— John Acton
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Uncle Acton spent the whole of his working life in India, for the simple reason that he gave up work very young.
— Rosemary Sutcliff
It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.
— Eliza Acton
The only thing I've experienced that could compare to the launch in terms of raw power was the Loma Prieta earthquake.
— Loren Acton
The mills of God grind slowly.
— Lord Acton
I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders and follow their lead.
— Brian Acton
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Horace Greeley pursues temperance to extravagance." Lord Acton
— Harold Holzer
Dealing with ads is depressing. You don't make anyone's life better by making advertisements work better.
— Brian Acton
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
— Lord Acton
The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
— Lord Acton
Socialism means slavery.
— Lord Acton
When you look out the other way toward the stars you realize it's an awful long way to the next watering hole.
— Loren Acton
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Judge talent at its best but character at its worst.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
— Lord Acton
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.
— Lord Acton
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Towns were the nursery of freedom.
— Lord Acton
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
— Lord Acton
Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.
— Lord Acton
So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
— Harold Acton
Official truth is not actual truth.
— Lord Acton
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.
— Lord Acton
Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.
— Lord Acton
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
— John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Progress, the religion of those who have none.
— Lord Acton
