The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

		Name: Lord Acton Type: Historian Nationality: British Birth: January 10, 1834 Death: June 19, 1902