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

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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

Lord Acton in Letter to Mary Gladstone (1881)
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

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There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

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