John Dalberg-Acton
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John Dalberg-Acton is a person.
- AKA: Lord Acton, John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton.
- See: Power Corrupts.
References
2023
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton Retrieved:2023-7-18.
- John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, 13th Marquess of Groppoli, (10 January 1834 – 19 June 1902), better known as Lord Acton, was an English Catholic historian, politician, and writer. He is best remembered for the remark he wrote in a letter to an Anglican bishop in 1887:[1] "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
- ↑ Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 5, 1887 Transcript of, published in Historical Essays and Studies, edited by J. N. Figgis and R. V. Laurence (London: Macmillan, 1907).