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

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Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887. http://www.readingmatters.co.uk/idea.php?id=5 Apr 08 05, 5:21 PM

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