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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

- John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902). The historian and moralist, otherwise known simply as Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887.

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