Frases célebres de Lord Acton
Fuente: Rallo, Juan Ramón. Una revolución liberal para España: Anatomía de un país libre y próspero: ¿cómo sería y qué beneficios obtendríamos?. Editorial Grupo Planeta Spain, 2014. ISBN 9788423418992.
Lord Acton Frases y Citas
“Sospecha del poder más que del vicio y estudia los problemas con preferencia a los períodos.”
Original: «Suspect power more than vice, and study problems in preference to periods».
Fuente: Lectures on Modern History. John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton. Editorial Jazzybee Verlag, 2016. ISBN 9783849646127. https://books.google.es/books?id=u_xBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT30&dq=Judge+talent+at+its+best+but+character+at+its+worst.+Lord+Acton&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj1-92AgeTfAhWnBGMBHSrIAgkQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Judge%20talent%20at%20its%20best%20but%20character%20at%20its%20worst.%20Lord%20Acton&f=false
“No te conformes con el mejor libro; busca las luces de los demás; no tengas favoritos.”
Original: «Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites».
Fuente: Lectures on Modern History. John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton. Editorial Jazzybee Verlag, 2016. ISBN 9783849646127. https://books.google.es/books?id=u_xBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT30&dq=Judge+talent+at+its+best+but+character+at+its+worst.+Lord+Acton&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj1-92AgeTfAhWnBGMBHSrIAgkQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Be%20not%20content%20with%20the%20best%20book%3B%20seek%20sidelights%20from%20the%20others%3B%20have%20no%20favourites&f=false
“Juzga el talento en su mejor momento, pero el carácter en el peor.”
Original: «Judge talent at its best but character at its worst».
Fuente: Lectures on Modern History. John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton. Editorial Jazzybee Verlag, 2016. ISBN 9783849646127. https://books.google.es/books?id=u_xBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT30&dq=Judge+talent+at+its+best+but+character+at+its+worst.+Lord+Acton&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj1-92AgeTfAhWnBGMBHSrIAgkQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Judge%20talent%20at%20its%20best%20but%20character%20at%20its%20worst.%20Lord%20Acton&f=false
Original: «Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority».
Fuente: Hill, Roland. Lord Acton. Edición ilustrada. Editorial Yale University Press, 2000. ISBN 9780300129809. Página 300. https://books.google.es/books?id=K6haxnN0GX8C&pg=PA300&dq=Power+tends+to+corrupt,+and+absolute+power+corrupts+absolutely.+Great+men+are+almost+always+bad+men.+Lord+Acton&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjf7fzC_uPfAhUF0uAKHaVXCm4Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Power%20tends%20to%20corrupt%2C%20and%20absolute%20power%20corrupts%20absolutely.%20Great%20men%20are%20almost%20always%20bad%20men.%20Lord%20Acton&f=false
“Cuando percibas una verdad, busca la verdad equilibrada.”
Original: «When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth».
Fuente: Thompson, Kenneth W. Traditions and Values in Politics and Diplomacy: Theory and Practice. Political Traditions in Foreign Policy Series. Editorial LSU Press, 1992. ISBN 9780807117460. Página 175. https://books.google.es/books?id=GgMNY_7j8ukC&pg=PA175&dq=When+you+perceive+a+truth,+look+for+the+balancing+truth.+Lord+Acton&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj4n6bK_-PfAhWJMBQKHeQLDHUQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=When%20you%20perceive%20a%20truth%2C%20look%20for%20the%20balancing%20truth.%20Lord%20Acton&f=false
“Aprende tanto escribiendo como leyendo.”
Original: «Learn as much by writing as by reading».
Fuente: Kundtz, David. Quiet Mind: One Minute Mindfulness. Colaborador Steven Harrison. Editorial Conari Press, 2003. ISBN 9781609250065. https://books.google.es/books?id=MY6QO42KvN0C&pg=PT64&dq=Learn+as+much+by+writing+as+by+reading.+Lord+Acton&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiqjuy7_ePfAhUnBGMBHY1yCNcQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=Learn%20as%20much%20by%20writing%20as%20by%20reading.%20Lord%20Acton&f=false
Lord Acton: Frases en inglés
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
Undated
Private notes, quoted in Gertrude Himmelfarb, Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics (1952), p. 72
Undated
“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
Undated
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
Undated
“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
Undated
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
Undated
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)
Fuente: 1860s, The Massacre Of St. Bartholomew (1869)
Fuente: 1860s, The Massacre Of St. Bartholomew (1869)
