All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.-- John Dalberg-Acton (1834-1902), 1st Baron Acton, English historian, letter to Mandell Creighton, 5 April 1887
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