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More from John Acton

  1. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

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  2. Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

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  3. I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they did not wrong. If there is any presumpti…

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