"All power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
— Politics

January 1, 1970

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Lord Acton, letter to Mandell Creighton, April 1887. Reprinted in John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Essays on Freedom and Power, 1949, Boston:The Beacon Press, p. 364.