Don’t let us utter too much evil of party writers, for we owe them much. If not honest, they are helpful, as the advocates aid the judge; and they would not have done so well from mere inspiration of disinterested veracity. We might wait long if we watched for the man who knows the whole truth and has the courage to speak it, who is careful of other interests besides his own, and labors to satisfy opponents, who can be liberal towards those who have erred, who have sinned, who have failed, and deal evenly with friend and foe—assuming it would be possible for an honest historian to have a friend. —Lectures on the French Revolution by Lord Acton
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He was never “Lord John Dalberg-Acton”. He was John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, or John, Lord Acton for short. You can’t put “Lord” in front of a man’s Christian name without implying that he was a younger son of a duke or a marquess, which Acton certainly was not.