A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.
-George Orwell
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
-Lord Acton
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
-Lord Acton
If you are going to permit Cesar Augustus you have to be ready for Caligula.
-Max Brooks
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-Lord Acton
