… is from page 648 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):
Every man is the best, the most responsive judge of his own advantage. Therefore don’t let some one else interfere.


Every man is the best, the most responsive judge of his own advantage. Therefore don’t let some one else interfere.
