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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.