… is from page 566 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):
Party does not mean that one set of men are especially able, always right, virtuous and able. But that the others are profoundly wrong.
DBx: It’s as if Acton foresaw from 19th-century Britain national politics in 21st-century America.
