Lord Acton

[Christopher Tassava]

Sayeth _Bartlett's Familiar Quotations_, 16th Edition (Little, Brown & Co.,
1992), p. 521:

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop
Mandell Creighton (4/5/1887)

Cf.  "Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it;
and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyrrany begins."

Cf. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Speech in the case of Wilkes (1/9/1770)

Curmudgeonly,

Xferen

"The words unfreeze in my mouth/and the phrases are tumbling/
upon my tongue they scramble/along my teeth they scatter"
	The Kalevala