Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamenta…

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Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. ✨ John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). The History of Freedom (and other Essays), p.59, Jazzybee Verlag
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. ✨ Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone. Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1913.
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Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith. ✨ John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). The History of Freedom (and other Essays), p.59, Jazzybee Verlag

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