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«History must be our deliverer not only from the undue influence of other times, but from the undue influence of our own, from the tyranny of environment and the pressures of the air we breathe»
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(Historian)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
breathe, breathing time, deliverer, of our own, pressures, undue
«Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity»
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(Historian)
| About:
Publicity,
Secrets
| Keywords:
administration, Administration of Justice, degenerates, discussion, publicity
«Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.»
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(Historian)
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Absolute Power, corrupt, corrupts, tends, tends to
«The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.»
«No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence»
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(Historian)
| Keywords:
correspondence, Correspondences, revelation, Revelation of, utterance
«There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men»
«Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history»
«The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.»
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(Historian)
«I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.»
«Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.»
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
(Historian)
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good faith, Machiavelli, parliamentary, parliamentary government, public discussion
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