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Lord Acton Quotes


An English Catholic historian, politician, and writer.
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO, DL (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902), known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Bt from 1837 to 1869 and usually referred to simply as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He was the only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet and a grandson of the Neapolitan admiral Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet.

Here are some famous quotes by Lord Acton.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

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Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

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

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Imagine 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.

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There 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.