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Quotes from Letter to Mary Gladstone — John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

1834–1902 England

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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class.

Letter to Mary Gladstone (1881)

Almost all that has been done for the good of the people has been done since the right lost the monopoly of power, since the rights of property were discovered to be not unlimited.

Letter to Mary Gladstone (1881)

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

Letter to Mary Gladstone (1881)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.