Quotation of the Day…

(Don Boudreaux)

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… is from page 573 of the 1988 collection of Lord Acton’s writings (edited by the late J. Rufus Fears), Essays in Religion, Politics, and Morality; specifically, it’s a note drawn from Acton’s extensive papers at Cambridge University; (I can find no date for this passage):

Official truth is not actual truth.

DBx: Pictured here is a dispenser of official truth.