The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.Lord Acton
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Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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