{"product_id":"2940011923951","title":"The History of Freedom and Other Essays","description":"This ebook is complete with linked Table of Content making navigation quicker and easier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO, DL, known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Bt from 1837 to 1869 and usually referred to simply as Lord Acton, was an English historian, the only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet and grandson of the Neapolitan admiral, Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eActon took a great interest in America, considering its Federal structure the perfect guarantor of individual liberties. During the American Civil War, his sympathies lay entirely with the Confederacy, for their defense of States' Rights against a centralized government that, by all historical precedent, would inevitably turn tyrannical. His notes to Gladstone on the subject helped sway many in the British government to sympathize with the South. After the South's surrender, he wrote to Robert E. Lee that \"I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFamous sayings of Lord Acton\u003cbr\u003e“Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.”[4]\u003cbr\u003e\"Great men are almost always bad men.\"\u003cbr\u003e“The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.”\u003cbr\u003e“There is no worse heresy than the fact that the office sanctifies the holder of it.”\u003cbr\u003e“There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.”","brand":"WHITE DOG PUBLISHING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068881617136,"sku":"2940011923951","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011923951_p0.jpg?v=1763551253","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011923951","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}