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Quote of the Day: Lord Acton

By Barry Barnett on March 30, 2007

Lordacton
British historian Lord Acton
(1834-1902).

In 1887, Lord Acton wrote:

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

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