Maxioms by Lord Acton
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear read more
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For read more
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying read more
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
