“The unending struggle between liberty and power became the conceptual framework for many histories written by classical liberals and libertarians. As Lord Acton, the dean of liberal historians, put it, the ‘struggle for the concentration of power and for the limitation and division of power is the mainspring of history.'”
http://www.libertarianism.org/columns/lust-power
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