John Dalberg-Acton Quotes

English - Historian | January 10, 1834 - June 19, 1902

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

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

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

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

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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

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The greatest men, you can quote for everything.

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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

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