John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Quotes

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

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

When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

Do not open your minds to the filtering of the fallacious doctrine that it is less infamous to murder men for their politics than for their religion or their money, or that the courage to execute the...

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

The theory of the relations between states and churches is bound up with the theory of Toleratio, and on that suject the eighteenth century scarcely rose above an intermittend, embarrassed, and unscie...