John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1. Baron Acton, KCVO byl anglický liberální katolík, historik a novinář. V letech 1859-1866 byl poslancem Dolní sněmovny.
Je znám výrokem „Moc korumpuje a absolutní moc korumpuje absolutně.“
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„Moc kazí a absolutní moc kazí absolutně.“
v dopise biskupu Mandellu Creightonovi, duben 1887
Originál: (en) All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Varianta: Všechna moc korumpuje, a absolutní moc korumpuje absolutně.
Zdroj: [Bennett, William J, The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood, Thomas Nelson Inc, 2011, anglicky]
„Fanatismus v náboženství je spojení vášní, jež náboženství odsuzuje, s články víry, jež vyznává.“
Originál: (en) Fanaticism in religion is an alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
Zdroj: [Dawson, Christopher, 1997, Bohové revoluce, Vyšehrad, 1., 18, 80-7021-171-7]
„Význační muži jsou téměř bez výjimky zlí lidé.“
v eseji Jiřího Přibáně »Senátor a jeho Senát«
Zdroj: [Salon, příloha Práva, Borgis, 2020, prosinec, 31, 30, 1206, 15, http://www.novinky.cz/kultura/salon, 1211-2119, česky]
The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)
“A government which cannot be reformed does not merit to be preserved.”
Private notes, quoted in Gertrude Himmelfarb, Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics (1952), p. 74
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Private notes, quoted in Gertrude Himmelfarb, Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics (1952), p. 72
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“The strongest of all the obstacles to progress, the reign of the dead.”
Private notes, quoted in G. E. Fasnacht, Acton's Political Philosophy. An Analysis (1952), p. 60, n. 1
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Private notes, quoted in G. E. Fasnacht, Acton's Political Philosophy. An Analysis (1952), p. 19, n. 7
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Letter to William Ewart Gladstone (26 April 1891), quoted in J. N. Figgis and R. V. Laurence (eds.), Selections from the Correspondence of the First Lord Acton, Vol. I (1917), p. 235
“The yeoman farmers of the United States have always been the strength of the republic.”
The North British Review (April 1870), p. 268, quoted in G. E. Fasnacht, Acton's Political Philosophy. An Analysis (1952), p. 217
Private journal (1858), quoted in Gertrude Himmelfarb, Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics (1952), p. 70
Private journal (1858), quoted in Gertrude Himmelfarb, Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics (1952), p. 40
Private notes, quoted in Herbert Butterfield, ‘Acton: His Training, Methods and Intellectual System’, in A. O. Sarkissian (ed.), Studies in Diplomatic History and Historiography in honour of G. P. Gooch, C.H. (1961), p. 195
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Private notes, quoted in Herbert Butterfield, ‘Acton: His Training, Methods and Intellectual System’, in A. O. Sarkissian (ed.), Studies in Diplomatic History and Historiography in honour of G. P. Gooch, C.H. (1961), p. 194
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“The only resistance ever made to Louis XIV was from religion.”
Private notes, quoted in Herbert Butterfield, ‘Acton: His Training, Methods and Intellectual System’, in A. O. Sarkissian (ed.), Studies in Diplomatic History and Historiography in honour of G. P. Gooch, C.H. (1961), p. 194
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Private notes, quoted in Herbert Butterfield, ‘Acton: His Training, Methods and Intellectual System’, in A. O. Sarkissian (ed.), Studies in Diplomatic History and Historiography in honour of G. P. Gooch, C.H. (1961), p. 194
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Private notes, quoted in Herbert Butterfield, ‘Acton: His Training, Methods and Intellectual System’, in A. O. Sarkissian (ed.), Studies in Diplomatic History and Historiography in honour of G. P. Gooch, C.H. (1961), p. 192
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Private notes, quoted in Herbert Butterfield, ‘Acton: His Training, Methods and Intellectual System’, in A. O. Sarkissian (ed.), Studies in Diplomatic History and Historiography in honour of G. P. Gooch, C.H. (1961), p. 186
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Letter to William Ewart Gladstone (21 November 1891), quoted in J. N. Figgis and R. V. Laurence (eds.), Selections from the Correspondence of the First Lord Acton, Vol. I (1917), p. 257
1890s
Letter (23 January 1861), published in Lord Acton and his Circle (1906) by Abbot Francis Aidan Gasquet, Letter 74
1860s
1880s, Letter to Mary Gladstone (1881)
1870s, The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)
Opening statement.
1870s, The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877)
Zdroj: 1860s, The Massacre Of St. Bartholomew (1869)
Zdroj: 1860s, The Massacre Of St. Bartholomew (1869)
