01UndatedImagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jefferson Napoleon Pitt etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.Lord Acton / quote ↗
04UndatedThere is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jefferson Napoleon Pitt etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.Lord Acton / quote ↗
05UndatedThere is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.Lord Acton / quote ↗
06UndatedI'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.Lord Acton / quote ↗
09UndatedAnd 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.Lord Acton / quote ↗
11UndatedLiberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.Lord Acton / quote ↗
12UndatedThe science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.Lord Acton / quote ↗
13UndatedThe danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.Lord Acton / quote ↗
15UndatedTo be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.Lord Acton / quote ↗
16UndatedThere is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.Lord Acton / quote ↗
