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Lord Acton Quotes
Page 2 of 2Lord Acton
January 10, 1834 - June 19, 1902
Nationality: British
Category: Historian
Subcategory: British Historian
|  The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. | | The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. | | Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. | | Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. | | Learn as much by writing as by reading. | | Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. | | History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. |
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