Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolut… - John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

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

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

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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.

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John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton Edmund Burke John Adams Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. - John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

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