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"Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely"

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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April (1887), in Louise Creighton Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton ( (1904)) vol. 1, ch. 13.