Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corru...

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

quote by Lord Acton
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