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Absolutely Quotes by Lord Acton
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- 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…
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike,…
- I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.…
- There is no evidence to support the belief that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ever questioned Americas power. He questioned only the President's John F. Kennedys…
- Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Power corrupts.Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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