Who said 'Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely'?

- Lord Acton was an English Catholic historian, politician and writer.
- His famous quotation: Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
- History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
- Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
- Learn as much by writing as by reading.
Source: Encyclopedia of Britannica.