Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Wednesday, July 10, 2013 – Lord Acton
Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Wednesday, July 10, 2013 – Lord Acton
“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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“Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.”
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“Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.”
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“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. “
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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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“If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.”
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“Learn as much by writing as by reading.”
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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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“Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.”
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“Machiavelli’s teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.”
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“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.”
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“Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
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“Socialism means slavery.”
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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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“The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.”
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“The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.”
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“The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.”
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“The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.”
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“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.”
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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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“Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realisation the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition.”
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“Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.”
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“I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task. In the ages of which I have spoken, the history of freedom was the history of the thing that was not. But since the Declaration of Independence, or, to speak more justly, since the Spaniards, deprived of their king, made a new government for themselves, the only known forms of Liberty, Republics and Constitutional Monarchy, have made their way over the world.”
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“I have fixed my eyes on the spaces that heaven’s light illuminates, that I may not lay too heavy a strain on the indulgence with which you have accompanied me over the dreary and heartbreaking course by which men have passed to freedom; and because the light that has guided us is still unquenched, and the causes that have carried us so far in the van of free nations have not spent their power; because the story of the future is written in the past, and that which hath been is the same thing that shall be.”
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“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.”
Wikipedia: Lord Acton
