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Official Lebanon Town Meeting Minutes
OurVoice – Online Library of Lebanon Meetings on Veoh.com
Lebanon Town Map – 8 1/2″ X 11″
“The Manager Plan in Maine” – Table of Contents
Real Democracy – The New England Town Meeting and How It Works
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1 tlbarrows // Aug 3, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely
Meaning
Literal meaning.
Origin
This arose as a quotation by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902). 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.”
Another English politician with no shortage of names – William Pitt, the Elder, The Earl of Chatham and British Prime Minister from 1766 to 1778, is sometimes wrongly attributed as the source. He did say something similar, in a speech to the UK House of Lords in 1770:
“Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it”
Found on: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/288200.html
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