“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, First Baron Acton (1834-1902)
Letter to Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887
Excerpted from: Shapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
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