John Dalberg Acton

John Dalberg Acton (1834 - 1902), better known as Lord Acton, was a descendant of Acton, who became a leader of the Liberal Catholics in England, M.P. for Carlow, and made a peer in 1869. He was a man of wide learning, and the projector of a universal history by experts in different departments of the field.

Wisdom & Quotes

• The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

- The History of Freedom in Antiquity

• Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely - Great men are almost always bad men.

- letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 1887

George Arnold