Quotes John Acton

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession hav...

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be prot...

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of...

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor pena...

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of ...

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience...

Liberty is the prevention of control by others....

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolute...

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this wor...

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on th...

The greatest men, you can quote for everything....

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is...