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| Lord Actonb: Naples, Italy., Jan 10, 1834 d: White Lake, Michigan., Jul 19, 1902 English. Historian. Liberal MP who was first editor of Cambridge Modern History.
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. 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. The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. |
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