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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

~Lord Acton

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Learn as much by writing as by reading.

~Lord Acton

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

~Lord Acton

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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

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

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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

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Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

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

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

~Lord Acton

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: January 10th, 1834

Died: June 19th, 1902

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