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"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Lord Acton
Essays on Freedom and Power (1972)
Written in a letter to Mandell Creighton in 1887, who was a Bishop of the Church of England, but at the time of the letter was a professor at Cambridge.
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"The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections."
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"The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority."
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"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."
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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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British Historian Justice
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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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"Truth always prevails in the end,"
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"Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being."
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"Learn as much by writing as by reading."
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