The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
Lord Acton

Learn as much by writing as by reading.
Lord Acton

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
Lord Acton

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
Lord Acton

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
Lord Acton