I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong.


Lectures on modern history (ed. Peter Smith Pub Inc, 1975)

John Dalberg-Acton Quotes

I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own...

I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own...

I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own...

I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own...