Top 24 Quotes by Lord Acton

Socialism means slavery.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

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.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

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

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

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

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

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.