Lord Acton

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a…

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul…

I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful…

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is…

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely…

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not…

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely…

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on…

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do…

Machiavelli’s teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands…

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either…

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of…

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too…

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing…