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

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Source : "Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1913.

Lord Acton

#Rights Quotes #Government Quotes #Class Quotes

“Hello, Gallagher Girl --Zack”
“If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.”
“I notice that, in the lecture … which Prof. Lowry gave recently, in Paris … he brought forward certain freak formulae for tartaric acid, in which hydrogen figures as bigamist … I may say, he but follows the loose example set by certain Uesanians, especially one G. N. Lewis, a Californian thermodynamiter, who has chosen to disregard the fundamental canons of chemistry—for no obvious reason other than that of indulging in premature speculation upon electrons as the cause of valency”
“The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'”
“Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.”
“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”
“At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.”
“I do like to keep my private life to myself. But then again, I don't really get up to much.”

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