Lord Acton Quotes
I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.
Citations
Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg. Selections from the Correspondence of the First Lord Acton. Edited by John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence, vol. 1, Longmans, Green and Co., 1917, p. 302.
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John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, 13th Marquess of Groppoli, better known as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He was the only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet, and a grandson of the Neapolitan admiral and prime minister Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet. Between 1837 and 1869 he was known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Baronet.