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. ... There is no worse heresy than that the
office sanctifies the holder of it.
-- Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dahlberg, 1st Baron Acton), (1834-1902)
-- letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887, -- reprinted in
-- Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton (1904), vol. 1, ch. 13
