阿克顿勋爵

This famous dictum of Lord Acton is as relevant today as it was when stated in 1887.

阿克顿勋爵（LordActon）的这句著名格言，就像1887年说出时一样，贴近今日之现实。

Lord Acton was correct to suggest that the practice of political liberty in the West arose largely from this medieval church-state conflict.

阿克顿勋爵准确地指出，西方的政治自由实践主要源自中世纪的教俗纷争。

I would only add to Acton´s dictum that discretionary power is even more corrupting than the power embodied in regulations.

要是说对阿克顿勋爵的格言有什么补充的话，我只会说，自由裁量权要比制度中赋予的权利更容易造成腐败。

The famous words of Lord Acton, a 19th-century historian, were quoted in another: “Absolute power corrupts absolutely. ”

另一篇评论引用了19世纪英国历史学家，阿克顿勋爵名言：“绝对的权力绝对地导致腐败”。

More than a century ago Lord Acton advised his students at Cambridge to ´study problems, not periods´.

一个多世纪前阿克顿勋爵建议他在剑桥的学生“研究问题，而非年代。”