Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
Lord ActonThe science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
Lord ActonIf the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
Lord Acton