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LAW & HISTORY > historian > John Dalberg Acton
Be more severe...
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Be more severe to ideas than to actions; do not over look the strength of the bad cause or the weakness of the good.
Source: Inaugural Lecture on The Study of History, Cambridge, 11 Jun 1895.
-- John Dalberg Acton, (Jan 10 1834-1902), English historian; He was a noted Christian liberal who edited The Rambler and planned the Cambridge Modern History.