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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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1443 |
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AUTHOR:
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John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (1834–1902) |
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QUOTATION:
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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LORD ACTON, letter to Mandell Creighton, April 5, 1887.—Acton, Essays on Freedom and Power, ed. Gertrude Himmelfarb, pp. 335–36 (1972). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Power |
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