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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class.

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Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realisation the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition.

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

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John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
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Born: January 10, 1834
Died: June 19, 1902 (aged 68)
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