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“Absolute power corrupts absolutely” (1887)

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902)

Lord Acton, the historian and moralist, expressed this opinion in a letter (1887)  to Bishop Mandell Creighton: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”

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