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

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

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

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

Lord Acton

End

Liberty

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Lord Acton

Reading

Writing

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

Lord Acton

Nothing

Today

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Lord Acton

Money

Artist

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

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

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

Lord Acton

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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.

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.