John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Quotes

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence. - John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. - John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

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. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. - John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton