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Complete the phrase Power corrupts and absolute power?

Corrupts Absolutely


Who said power corrupts?

Lord Acton, British Historian. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrrupts absolutely


Who said 'Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely'?

The phrase "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely" was said by Lord Acton, a British historian. His statement emphasizes how unchecked power has the potential to lead individuals to act in corrupt ways.


Is President Obama a good example of this quote power corrupts absolute power corrupts absolutely?

No. Mainly because the US government is set up so that no one person can ever have absolute power. Whether or not President Obama is a corrupt leader, he will never have absolute power and will thus never be a proper example of this quote.


In what year did Lord Acton say absolute power corrupts absolutely?

This arose as a quotation by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834-1902). The historian and moralist, who was otherwise known simply as Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."Another answerWilliam Pitt, Earl of Chatham, expressed that thought in a speech in 1770. The poet Percy Bysshe Shelly expressed it in Queen Mab, 1813. But the most usual and best-known attribution is to Lord Acton (John Emerich Dalberg-Acton), who wrote, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton (April 5, 1887), "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."