John Acton
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. JOHN ACTON The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on ... JOHN ACTON Liberty is the prevention of control by others. JOHN ACTON If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest em... JOHN ACTON History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. JOHN ACTON Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, ... JOHN ACTON By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his d... JOHN ACTON By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to re... JOHN ACTON Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. JOHN ACTON The greatest men, you can quote for everything. 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The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man. 
Give me your tired, your poor, 
The history of liberty is a history of resistance. 
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new socia... 
Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or posse... 
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will... 
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. 
The mind can never foresee its own advance 
The distinguishing part of our Constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate seems... 
While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the rights of... 
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all libert... 
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The his... 
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The his... 
We think ourselves possessed, or, at least, we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all... 
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. 
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The histo... 
Liberty never came from government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history o... 
Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? ... 
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all libe... 
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all libert... 
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of
tyrants.
[Fr., L'arbre de la liberte ... 
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love ... 
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines w... 
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines w... 
I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgement dictates to be right, without the yoke of any... 
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. 
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always ... 
Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity. 
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the... 
Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like. 
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its dut... 
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty. 
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards. 
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. 
The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty th... 
Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily ... 
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty ... 
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty... 
President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious ... 
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases 
The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interf... 
The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interf... 
If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-... 
The principles of genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations, are to be drawn from the Bi... 
For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire. 
The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of t... 
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty n... 
Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty 
Arms are the only true badge of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man fro... 
The last time I was inside a woman was when I was inside the Statue of Liberty. 
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force. 
The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force 
'Negative liberty' is a political science term meaning a liberty from government action. It ... 
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court c... 
Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. ... 
The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world. 
Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it als... 
A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself. 
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to ... 
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is libert... 
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty ... 
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty ... 
It [the Eiffel Tower] looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? Wh... 
All government, of course, is against liberty. 
The court has . . . recognized that personal privacy is a component of the liberty protected by the ... 
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal
vigilance. 
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. 
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. 
The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction 
Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrin... 
Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink... 
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. 
Your insurance broker has your telephone number, but your insurance broker doesn't have your Fac... 
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice. 
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security f... 
When I worked at Yahoo, I saw a lot of acquisitions. Some succeeded, and some failed. I think I have... 
'WhatsApp' provides phone number-based messaging, and people asked, 'Isn't that what... 
Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not sho... 
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice. 
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different time... 
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... 
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... 
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... 
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... 
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... 
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... 
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b... 
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ... 
I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... 
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... 
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 
You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw... 
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... 
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... 
Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... 
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot... 
When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. 
My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. 
I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop... 
Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li... 
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ... 
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i... 
Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. 
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. 
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. 
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. 
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte... 
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i... 
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir... 
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. 
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? 
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. 
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y... 
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. 
With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ... 
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi... 