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"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."
"History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path!"
"History must be documented, every moment is a sacred history."
"Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation."
"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."
Explore more quotes by John Acton
"Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin."
"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."
"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."
"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."
"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."
"By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion."
"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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