Mambo Jambo
JF-Expert Member
- Jul 11, 2008
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"I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way, against the holders of power, increasing as the power increases.
Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. 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 certainty of corruption by full authority. There is no worse heresy than the fact that the office sanctifies the holder . " _ John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
Katika uchaguzi wa Rais na Speaker, kuna kitu cha msingi sana kujifunza toka kwenye hii famous pronouncement.
Amani kwenu wote.
Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. 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 certainty of corruption by full authority. There is no worse heresy than the fact that the office sanctifies the holder . " _ John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
Katika uchaguzi wa Rais na Speaker, kuna kitu cha msingi sana kujifunza toka kwenye hii famous pronouncement.
Amani kwenu wote.
