Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not author… - John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Great men are almost always bad men.

power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley

Power tends to corrupt;
absolute power corrupts absolutely.

At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has been sometimes disastrous, by giving to opponents just grounds of opposition, and by kindling dispute over the spoils in the hour of success.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.