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Danh ngôn của John Dalberg-Acton (Sứ mệnh: 5)

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
Socialism means slavery.