LORD ACTON

ORACLE OF LIBERTARIANS

The following are some of Lord Action's quotes:

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.”

“Liberty consists in the division of power. Absolutism, in concentration of power.”

“Bureaucracy is undoubtedly the weapon and sign of a despotic government, inasmuch as it gives whatever government it serves, despotic power.”

“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 of the certainty of corruption by authority.”

“Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.”

“Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.”

As revolutions grow around the world there is hope for freedom. Unfortunately most revolutions have monsters seize power and placate the masses with actions that may appeal to the masses and appear legitimate at the time but are gruesome and cruel (which is the true portrayal of events) in the history books.

Peter St. Onge writes in "Revolutions Eat Their Parents" the following:

The left-wing revolutions of the twentieth century have all followed this pattern: midwifed by utopian intellectuals, power is quickly seized by political entrepreneurs who play to the basest instincts of the common people. Even in the most “civilized” places, such as “anything goes” Weimar Germany or 1950s “playground of the stars” Cuba, these newly enthroned are happy to see those eggheads and their “perverted” friends interred, tortured, hung from the nearest lamp post.

Read the full essay at Mises.org by clicking the following link:

http://mises.org/library/revolutions-eat-their-parents