Quotes by : Lord Acton

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

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.....

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond....

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.