Quote

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Lord Acton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lord Acton
Freedom
Enjoyed
Free
Judge
Culture
Tests
Certain
Judging
Country
Atheism
Minorities
Really
Amount
Equality
Security
Test
Whether
Diversity

More quotes by Lord Acton

Image
The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
Lord Acton
Image
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
Lord Acton
Image
History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.
Lord Acton
Image
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
Lord Acton
Image
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.
Lord Acton
Image
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
Lord Acton
Image
Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
Lord Acton
Image
The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.
Lord Acton
Image
Fanaticism displays itself in the masses but the masses were rarely fanaticised and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.
Lord Acton
Image
The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
Lord Acton
Image
Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.
Lord Acton
Image
Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.
Lord Acton
Image
Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.
Lord Acton
Image
Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.
Lord Acton
Image
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
Lord Acton
Image
The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.
Lord Acton
Image
The mills of God grind slowly.
Lord Acton
Image
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton
Image
Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.
Lord Acton
Image
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
Lord Acton