John Dalberg-Acton on Life
Browse 4 quotations attributed to John Dalberg-Acton, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
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Attributed to John Dalberg-Acton, entry #54331: "e are not so much concerned this evening with the dead letter of edicts and of statutes as with the living thoughts of men."
Attributed to John Dalberg-Acton, entry #198522: "t will not do to act as if the moral question was not the supreme question in public life, and, in a sense, the vera causa of party conflict."
4 Quotes by John Dalberg-Acton on Life
"e are not so much concerned this evening with the dead letter of edicts and of statutes as with the living thoughts of men."
"t will not do to act as if the moral question was not the supreme question in public life, and, in a sense, the vera causa of party conflict."
"Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion, and it stands to the domestic feelings and to home-sickness as faith to fanaticism and to superstition."
"A century ago it was perfectly well known that whoever had one audience of a Master in Chancery was made to pay for three, but no man heeded the enormity until it suggested to a young lawyer that it might be well to question and examine with rigorous suspicion every part of a system in which such things were done. The day on which that gleam lighted up the clear hard mind of Jeremy Bentham is memorable in the political calendar beyond the entire administration of many statesmen."