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

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Lord Acton. Letter to Archbishop Mandell Creighton. 5 Apr. 1887. Acton-Creighton Correspondence. https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/acton-acton-creighton-correspondence#lf1524_label_010