"There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it."
— Power

January 1, 1970

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John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, letter to Mandell Creighton, April 5, 1887. Acton, Essays on Freedom and Power, ed. Gertrude Himmelfarb, p. 336 (1972).