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Lord Acton
1/1834-6/1902 (Age at death: 68)
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, KCVO, DL (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902), known as Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Bt from 1837 to 1869 and usually referred to simply as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He was the only son of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet[1] and a grandson of the Neapolitan admiral Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet.[2][3] He is famous for his remark, often misquoted: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"..read more
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All power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
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All power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. |
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason. |
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason. |
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. |
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men. |
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks". |
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