Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.Lord Acton
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Lord Acton
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
Lord Acton
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.
Lord Acton
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
Lord Acton
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