"Machiavelli’s teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith."
― Lord Acton
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Morning
More From Lord Acton
- "If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh."
- "The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern."
- "The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future."
More In Morning
- "I’d hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that’s as good as you’re going to feel all day."― Dean Martin
- "Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it’s the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it."― Florence King
- "Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it’s probably because you need the sleep."― Sophia Bush