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Quotes by Lord Acton Dalberg

Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion.

Lord Acton Dalberg (1834 - 1902)
Source: 'Nationality', in The Home and Foreign Review, July 1862.
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Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility.

Lord Acton Dalberg (1834 - 1902)
 
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Lord Acton Dalberg (1834 - 1902)
 
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Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing.

Lord Acton Dalberg (1834 - 1902)
Source: "Inaugural Lecture on The Study of History," Cambridge, 11 Jun 1895.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Lord Acton Dalberg (1834 - 1902)
Source: Quotations of Wit and Wisdom, ed. & John W. Garder et al., 1975.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

Lord Acton Dalberg (1834 - 1902)
Source: Letter to Mary Gladstone, 1881.
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Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty - but no welcome. Below was a welcoming planet. There, contained in the thin, moving, incredibly fragile shell of the biosphere is everything that is dear to you, all the human drama and comedy. That's where life is; that's where all the good stuff is.

Lord Acton Dalberg (1834 - 1902)
 
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Be more severe to ideas than to actions; do not over look the strength of the bad cause or the weakness of the good.

Lord Acton Dalberg (1834 - 1902)
Source: "Inaugural Lecture on The Study of History," Cambridge, 11 Jun 1895.
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Everything secret degenerates; nothing is safe that does not bear discussion and publicity.

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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

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