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“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Lord Acton’s quote has become a dictum of political thought. Power, so the conventional wisdom goes, has a corrupting effect.
That is clearly true. Powerful people experience temptations and incentives that the rest of us do not. They can tell people what to do. They can spend other people’s money. The halls of power offer many rewards—for bad behavior as well as for good.
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