Lord ActonThinkers

Consistency is a puerile temptation.

Democracy is freighted with one evil... namely, the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Diplomacy is the atmosphere of accredited mendacity.

Experience is like medicine... some persons require larger doses of it than others, and do not like to take it pure, but a little disguised and better adapted to taste.

The Great man is almost always a bad man, for power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely

Patriotism is, in political life, what faith is in religion.

Power is corrupting — Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.