Dalberg Quotes & Sayings

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Whatever it takes to get everybody loose, I'm going to do it! — Vince Young

When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Tomorrow, you promise yourself, things will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today. And you disappoint yourself again and again. — James T. McCay

You know, sometimes you can be real scary. I don't what you were thinking back there when you took those shoes off, but all hair stood up on the back of my next."
I had airport rage."
Fuckin' A," Lula said. — Janet Evanovich

Knowledge is power. Knowledge is what makes information valuable. For knowledge to be useful, it must be acted upon. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. (John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1834 - 1902). All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. (Edmund Burke, 1729-1797) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. (George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950). We must never take our freedom for granted. — Al Zelczer

Respect existance or expect resistance. — Unknown

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security ... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security. — Warren Rudman

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you. — Sean Penn

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

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. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet, but stands in the will of God, and so is free to be known by all men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

In my experience, the heavy-handed, terror-inspiring approach closes as many doors as it smashes open. — Dan Abnett

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

For a man is justly despised who has one opinion in history and another in politics, one for abroad and another at home, one for opposition and another for office. History — John Emerich Edward Dalberg

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one. Nothing has changed and yet everything is different. I can't describe it, it's like the Nausea and yet it's just the opposite: at last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here; I am the one who splits in the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel. — Jean-Paul Sartre

power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

The object of civil society is justice, not truth, virtue, wealth, knowledge, glory or power. Justice is followed by equality and liberty. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Great men are almost always bad men. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

I miss your face — Cynthia Gonzales

Appreciation is the legal tender that all souls enjoy. — Dale Carnegie

So, daddy, huh?
C'mon Blue-Eyes, don't be like that. You kept screaming 'more' and it was the dirtiest thing I could think of. — Eve Dangerfield

Judge talent at its best but character at its worst. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions. — Brian McBride

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. — Euripides

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has been sometimes disastrous, by giving to opponents just grounds of opposition, and by kindling dispute over the spoils in the hour of success. — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton