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• Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility.
  Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely....
• Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
  -- Lord Acto...
• Miracle owes its origin to the negation of thought.
• There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
  William James ['Varieties of Religious Experience', 1902]...
• If the end does not justify the means - what can? -- Edward Abbey
• The end must justify the means. -- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- Hans Carvel
• Murder may be done by legal means, by plausible and profitable war, by calumny, as well as by dose or dagger.
  -- Lord Acton (1834-1902)...
• The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
  Lord Acton (1834-1902)...
• Painting is the representation of visible forms. . .
  The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. -- Gustave Courbe...