Quotes by : Lord Acton

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

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress....

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

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains....

Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu....

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

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

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

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

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the....