Quotes by : Lord Acton

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

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

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

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

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....

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.

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