There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men… — Lord Acton

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The results would be an Encyclopedia of Error.

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Lord Acton. Letter to Mary Gladstone. 24 Apr. 1881.