Lord Acton Famous Quotes
"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
"It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason."
The man who prefers his country before any other duty duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
Lord Acton Quotations
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Frank Moore Colby
"You never conquer a mountain. Mountains can't be conquered you conquer yourself--your hopes, your fears."
Jim Whitaker
"Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink."
F H Bradley
Banning gun shows to reduce violent crime will work about as well as banning auto shows to reduce drunken driving.
Bill McIntire
It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.
Stanislaw Ulam
"Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time."
Albert Einstein
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
James Truslow Adams
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"When you die, if you go somewhere where they ask you a bunch of questions about your life and what you learned and all, I think a good way to get out of it is just to say, 'No speaka English.'"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts