The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.
Lord ActonI mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.
Lord ActonThe danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
Lord ActonIt is they [men of science] who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error ministers to truth, and truth slowly but irrevocably prevails. Theirs is the logic of discovery, the demonstration of the advance of knowledge and the development of ideas, which as the earthly wants and passions of men remain almost unchanged, are the charter of progress, and the vital spark in history.
Lord Acton