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Unlimited Power Is Apt To Corrupt The Minds Of Those Who Possess It.
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Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.
-- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778)
-- Speech, Hansard (House of Lords) 9 January 1770, col. 665
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