"And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that."
― Lord Acton
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Money
More From Lord Acton
- "History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul."
- "If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh."
- "There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye."
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- "There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else."― Andrew Carnegie