Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
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Lord Acton. Letter to Archbishop Mandell Creighton. 5 Apr. 1887.
Lord Acton. Letter to Archbishop Mandell Creighton. 5 Apr. 1887.
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