 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - 1907 - Liczba stron: 564
...history, 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... | |
 | George Peabody Gooch - 1913 - Liczba stron: 634
...' 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.' Creighton's rejoinder protested against making... | |
 | 1919 - Liczba stron: 666
...peoples. "I cannot accept the canon that we are to judge Pope or King unlike other men, with a favorable 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. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power... | |
 | 1919 - Liczba stron: 540
...peoples. "I cannot accept the canon that we are to judge Pope or King unlike other men, with a favorable 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. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1905 - Liczba stron: 686
..., . I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favoured presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any...holders of power — increasing as the power increases. . . . Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. House Administration Committee - 1975 - Liczba stron: 594
..."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...has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. " J . Acton Essays on Freedom and Power, 364 (H. Finer ed. 1948) (emphasis added) . - 187 Therefore,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence - 1978 - Liczba stron: 1558
..."I cannot accept your canon tliat 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." J. Acton, E»aays on Freedom and Power 304... | |
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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... 
