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Author - Lord Acton
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politics
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
Burden
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Liberty
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
blunders
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress....
historians
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
History
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains....
mistakes
Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu....
Handshake
There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond....
Live
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Danger
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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