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    Who wrote, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"?

    Question #56554. Asked by lanfranco. (Apr 08 05 3:31 PM)


    McGruff

    		Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887.
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    Apr 08 05, 4:21 PM

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