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Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Lord Acton

Lord Acton Biography

  Nationality: British
Type: Historian

Born: January 10, 1834
Death: June 19, 1902
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