John Dalberg-Acton quotes

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

"Great men are almost always bad men."

“There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.”

“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.”

"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks."

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."