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… is from page 542 of the 1988 collection of Lord Acton’s writings (edited by the late J. Rufus Fears), Essays in Religion, Politics, and Morality [2]; specifically, it’s a note drawn from Acton’s extensive papers at Cambridge University; (I can find no date for this passage):
The partition is between friends of freedom and others. In principle that is permanent, fundamental, decisive.