Quotes by : John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.....

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of....

The theory of the relations between states and churches is bound up with the theory of Toleratio, and....

When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Do not open your minds to the filtering of the fallacious doctrine that it is less infamous to murder....