LetterPower tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.Lord Acton1887★ 6.9
Political literatureNature has left this Tincture in the Blood, That all Men wou'd be Tyrants if they cou'd.Daniel Defoe1701★ 3.6
Essay · Newspaper · Economic literatureThe man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.C. Northcote ParkinsonThe Economist · 1958★ 3.5