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Lord Acton

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.

John Dalberg-​Acton, 1st Baron Acton, The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877).

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