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The worst criminals were not the men who did the deed. The crime of mobs and courtiers, infuriated by the lust of vengeance and of power, is not so s… - John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
" "The worst criminals were not the men who did the deed. The crime of mobs and courtiers, infuriated by the lust of vengeance and of power, is not so strange a portent as the exultation of peaceful men, influenced by no present injury or momentary rage, but by the permanent and incurable perversion of moral sense wrought by a distorted piety.
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About John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902) was an English Catholic historian, commonly known as Lord Acton.
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Lord Acton
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John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
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Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Baronet
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John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
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John Dalberg-Acton
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John Acton
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Sir John Dalberg-Acton
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"Magistrate of History"
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The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation, — religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.
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