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Essays on Freedom and Power
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Author: Lord Acton
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Category: Big Government
Freedom and Power collects Lord Acton’s most important writings on a theme that would define his reputation for more than a century: the corruptions of power. In addition, the reader learns from his love of liberty as the great creative force in culture and society. This is the great collection of this giant of the late 19th century, published
Lectures on Modern History
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Author: Lord Acton
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Category: World History
It was announced in February 1895 that John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton, had been appointed to the Chair of Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge in succession to the late Sir John Seeley, who had held the office for upwards of a quarter of a century. Of the achievements of Acton’s six years’ tenure of the post, the
The American Revolution
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Author: Lord Acton
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Category: U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy
The motive was empire on one side and self-government on the other. It was a question between liberty and authority, between government by consent and government by force, writes Lord Acton. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Floy
The Civil War in America
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Author: Lord Acton
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Category: Political Theory, War and Foreign Policy, World History
It is remarkable that the Constitution was little trusted or admired by the wisest and most illustrious of its founders, and that its severest and most desponding critics were those whom Americans revere as the fathers of their country, writes Lord Acton. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Floy
The American Revolution
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Author: Lord Acton
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Category: Political Theory, Free Markets, Legal System, U.S. History
[A lecture delivered c. 1900 and published in 1906 in Lectures on Modern History . An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Floy Lilley, is available for download .] The rational and humanitarian enlightenment of the 18th century did much for the welfare of mankind, but little to promote the securities of freedom. Power was better employed than
American Federalism and the Civil War
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Author: Lord Acton
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Category: Entrepreneurship, Free Markets, Legal System, U.S. History
[Excerpted from a lecture delivered in 1866 and published in 1907 in Historical Essays and Studies . An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Floy Lilley, is available for download .] For many years before the outbreak of the Civil War, the United States had become an object of anxiety or of envy to many, of wonder and curiosity to all mankind.