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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Source: Letter, 3 Apr 1887, to Bishop Mandell Creighton; in The Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton, 1904.
-- John Dalberg Acton, (Jan 10 1834-1902), English historian; He was a noted Christian liberal who edited The Rambler and planned the Cambridge Modern History.

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