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John Acton

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"You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?"

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"Remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped."

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"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."

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"Only as an individual can man become a philosopher."

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"A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason."

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"Each man in his way is a treasure."

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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

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"One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real."

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"The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street."

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"I don't say tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it."

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"History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong."
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"By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead."
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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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"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."
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"Liberty is the prevention of control by others."
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
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"Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will."
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"The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition."
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"If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation."
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"Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country."
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