Quote by Lord Acton
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to d

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. – Lord Acton

Other quotes by Lord Acton

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. – Lord Acton

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Nature
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Machiavellis teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. – Lord Acton

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Faith
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. – Lord Acton

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Change
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The incentive to ambition is the love of power. – William Hazlitt

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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. – Marcus Aurelius

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power

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devils policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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power

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. – Vladimir Lenin

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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. – Anon.

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Through travel I first became aware of the outside world it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it. – Eudora Welty

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We never know the worth of water til the well is dry. – English Proverb

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Much Madness is divinest Sense — to a discerning Eye — much Sense — the starkest Madness — – Emily Dickinson

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