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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Quote by Lord Acton about corruption, power, absolute

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

Quote by Lord Acton about corruption, power, man, absolute, bad luck, bad

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Quote by Lord Acton about moral, consequences, morality, wealth, society, man, rightness

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Quote by Lord Acton about elections, democracy, force, police

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Quote by Lord Acton about evolution, ignorance, things

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Quote by Lord Acton about past, life

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about society, war

As I write, of course, Mussolini is an evil memory. But in 1933 he was a towering figure who was supposed to have discovered something worth study and imitation by all world artificers everywhere.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about memory, world

At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about prison, nation, magic, end, people

But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually moving close to the center of power. This was the crack in the wall through which they entered. Their power was...

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about power, communism, union, numbers

But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about revolution, events

But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.

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But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about vitality, praise

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about dictatorship

Fascism is the consequence of economic jam and dictatorship is the product of Fascism, for Fascism cannot be managed save by a dictator.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about dictatorship, consequences

Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about americans

I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about country

Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about mistake, enemies, americans, country, faith, people