” Power corrupts but absolute, power corrupts absolutely” 
This arose as a quotation by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902). The historian and moralist, who was otherwise known simply as Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:
Literal meaning
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”
I used Orator std for this typography A1 work.
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