WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:46:49 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg abstolutism – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Acton, John Dalberg (Lord) -- “Nationality,” Home and Foreign Review (1862-07) https://wist.info/acton-lord/23426/ https://wist.info/acton-lord/23426/#respond Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:47:44 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=23426 Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realisation the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition.


John Dalberg, Lord Acton (1834–1902) British historian, politician, writer
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