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Acton-Creighton Correspondence
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg,Lord Acton
Year: 1887 Edit Add
Book: Media and Participation
Acton-Creighton Correspondence
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg,Lord ActonYear: 1887 Edit Add
Book: Media and Participation
A famous summary of this argument can be found in a letter written in 1887 by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, the first Baron Acton, to Bishop Mandell Creighton: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men”.
A famous summary of this argument can be found in a letter written in 1887 by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, the first Baron Acton, to Bishop Mandell Creighton: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men”.
Info: John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton, Acton-Creighton Correspondence [1887]
Original Url: https://allsourcesarebroken.net/sites/default/files/Acton_PowerCorrupts1524_EBk_v6.0.pdf
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