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John Acton Quotes
	The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. John Acton Vote on this Quote: Bad <---> Good
	Type: Historian Quotes Category: English Historian Quotes Date of Birth: January 10, 1834 Date of Death: June 19, 1902 Nationality: English Amazon: John Acton on Amazon	Related Authors: Anita Brookner Edward Gibbon G. M. Trevelyan James Anthony Froude Thomas B. Macaulay John Keegan John Acton Henry James Sumner Maine
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