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John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton on Politics

1834–1902 England

← All quotes by John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

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

The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)

All power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Liberty becomes a question of morals more that politics.

Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion, and it stands to the domestic feelings and to home-sickness as faith to fanaticism and to superstition.

Nationality (1862)

The principles which discriminate in politics between good and evil, and make states worthy to last, were not yet found.

The History of Freedom in Christianity (1877)

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