The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.
Lord ActonA government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.
Lord ActonThe history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.
Lord Acton