If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a ce… — Quoted

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“If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.”

Lord Acton · Morning

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Lord Acton

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

Government

Lord Acton

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

Change

Lord Acton

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Society

Lord Acton

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Politics