Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
Lord ActonThere is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's John F. Kennedys readiness to use it. Elie Abel, The Missile Crisis (1966) Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord ActonMen cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
Lord ActonThe finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
Lord ActonAt all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.
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