Lord Acton

1st Baron Acton. Catholic historian, politician, and writer. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. (1834-1902) @ActonInstitute

[Lord Acton @baronacton]

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

[Acton Institute @ActonInstitute]

"You can be sure that large swathes of the political class will resist such an abatement of power. For once more power is acquired, few want to give it back." - @DrSamuelGregg https://t.co/sgafmFXgDF

[Rev. Robert Sirico @robertsirico]

For your consideration: https://t.co/TKykzxphA3.

[Jordan J. Ballor @JordanBallor]

“When a society is perishing,” wrote Pope Leo XIII in 1891, “the wholesome advice to give to those who would restore it is to call it to the principles from which it sprang.”

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[Lord Acton @baronacton]

The first of human concerns is religion, and it is the salient feature of the modern centuries.

[Lord Acton @baronacton]

@sladesr

[Lord Acton @baronacton]

@JordanBallor Start buying my library back from @Cambridge_Uni

[Lord Acton @baronacton]

The use of history turns far more on certainty than on abundance of acquired information.

[Acton Institute @ActonInstitute]

The 1619 Project’s introductory essay, written by Nikole Hannah-Jones, won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary—and, notably, not for history or public service. https://t.co/AGthTjO7fA

[Lord Acton @baronacton]

It is the essence of Democracy, he [Solon] said, to obey no master but the law.

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[Lord Acton @baronacton]

For our purpose, the main thing to learn is not the art of accumulating material, but the sublimer art of investigating it, of discerning truth from falsehood and certainty from doubt.

[Lord Acton @baronacton]

For the minds that are greatest and best alone furnish the instructive examples.

[Acton Institute @ActonInstitute]

“Each school of American conservative thought deserves to be evaluated in terms of its best arguments,” writes @DanHugger. “@JDVance1’s latest essay is evidence that this is increasingly not the practice in certain corners of the conservative movement.” https://t.co/O0g6nGiJka

[Jordan J. Ballor @JordanBallor]

Abraham Kuyper’s Public Theology https://t.co/SdcknTixXh via @ReformedForum

[Lord Acton @baronacton]

The true apostles of toleration are not those who sought protection for their own beliefs, or who had none to protect; but men to whom, irrespective of their cause, it was a political, a moral, and a theological dogma, a question of conscience involving both religion and policy.

[Jordan J. Ballor @JordanBallor]

"Work matures the worker because it requires ethical decision."

--Gerard Berghoef and Lester DeKoster

[Lord Acton @baronacton]

If men are not kept straight by duty, they must be by fear. The more they are kept by fear, the less they are free. The greater the strength of duty, the greater the liberty.

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[Ray Nothstine @RayNothstine]

"If men are not kept straight by duty, they must be by fear. The more they are kept by fear, the less they are free."

—Lord Acton

[Lord Acton @baronacton]

Laborem exercens reminds us it is through work that persons not only transform nature, adapting it to human own needs, but the human person “also achieves fulfilment as a human being and indeed, in a sense, becomes ‘more a human being.’” - @drantbradley

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[Lord Acton @baronacton]

Speaking as a nineteenth-century predecessor: If there is reason for pride in the past, there is more for hope in the time to come.

[Samuel Gregg @DrSamuelGregg]

“The good news is that free marketers have been down similar paths before. Following the Great War and Great Depression, leading market advocates realized that it was insufficient to simply repeat their nineteenth-century predecessors’ arguments.”
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[Lord Acton @baronacton]

@JordanBallor Reminded me of the German expression: Nicht gemeckert ist genug gelobt

[Lord Acton @baronacton]

They became content to be deceived, to live in a twilight of fiction, under clouds of false witness, inventing according to convenience, and glad to welcome the forger and the cheat.

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[Lord Acton @baronacton]

"History is a preceptor of prudence, not of principles. The principles of true politics are those of morality enlarged; and I neither now do, nor ever will admit of any other." - Edmund Burke

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