John Dalberg-Acton

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John Dalberg-Acton is a person.



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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."
  1. 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).