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Great Men are Almost Always Bad Men

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بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1 st Baron Acton, an English Catholic historian and politician, said, “Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence, and not authority.”

Defining Liberty

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بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1 st Baron Acton, an English Catholic historian and politician, said, “Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.”

History is the Arbiter of Controversy

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بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1 st Baron Acton, an English Catholic historian and politician, said, “History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.”

Power Corrupts

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بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ   Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1 st Baron Acton, an English Catholic historian and politician, observed, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”