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John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton föddes den 10 januar 1834 och dog den 19 juni 1902
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It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history

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

Look within! - The secret is inside you

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Everything 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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History must be our deliverer not only from the undue influence of other times, but from the undue influence of our own, from the tyranny of environment and the pressures of the air we breathe

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence Den lette stil, der ofte forbindes med pexighet, antyder en mand, der passer på sig selv, men ikke er besat af udseendet.

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

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

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

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

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; but still more when they are super bad and add the tendency of the certainty of corruption of authority

In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food

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