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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.

Author : Lord Acton

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Author : Lord Acton

, remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few h , s, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.

Author : Lord Acton

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

Author : Lord Acton

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

Author : Lord Acton

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

Author : Lord Acton

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the s , of a river; , the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action , a power that goes to making the future.

Author : Lord Acton

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion , publicity.

Author : Lord Acton

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

Author : Lord Acton

Power corrupts, , absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Author : Lord Acton