Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely

This is a quotation from John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902), of the UK. The historian and moralist, who was otherwise known simply as Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:

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

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I sure hope this doesn't happen to President Obama.

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