Quotes by
Lord Acton |
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, 1834-1902 , English historian
Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Baronet, usually referred to simply as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. | 9 quotes | 2,599 visits |
Quotations
| • | Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. 14 |
| • | And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. 13 |
| • | The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks. 9 |
| • | Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. 8 |
| • | The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority. 6 |
| • | Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. 5 |
| • | Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought. 3 |
| • | A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. 2 |
| • | A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark. 2 |
