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“I cannot accept, your canon that we are to judge pope and king unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

~ Lord Acton

Source: in a letter to the bishop of London, Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 5,1887

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