Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
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