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Lectures on the French Revolution

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton · John Neville Figgis · Reginald Vere Laurence

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Published2008
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John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton (1834–1902) was a British historian, politician, and writer of the Victorian era. He is best known for his famous dictum that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

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