If the distribution of power among the several parts of the… - John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

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If the distribution of power among the several parts of the State is the most efficient restraint on monarchy, the distribution of power among several States is the best check on democracy..

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

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Power tends to corrupt;
absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Of all conceivable things that which is most alien to their spirit is to sacrifice any distinct interest or particular right to the requirements of some vague abstraction.

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned — the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.

If the distribution of power among the several parts of the State is the most efficient restraint on monarchy, the distribution of power among severa… - John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

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