The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
Lord ActonThe finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
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 ActonLiberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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 Acton