John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

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

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

“Great men are almost always bad men.”

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

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

“Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.”

“The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities”