Comments on: “I won’t have anything more to say” http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/05/23/i-wont-have-anything-more-to-say/ HotAir.com's Greenroom Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:56:03 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: maggieo http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/05/23/i-wont-have-anything-more-to-say/comment-page-1/#comment-7445 maggieo Sun, 24 May 2009 00:42:15 +0000 http://hotair.com/greenroom/?p=3270#comment-7445 sounds like the novel 1984. It has become reality. sounds like the novel 1984. It has become reality.

]]> By: coldwarrior http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/05/23/i-wont-have-anything-more-to-say/comment-page-1/#comment-7424 coldwarrior Sat, 23 May 2009 22:11:00 +0000 http://hotair.com/greenroom/?p=3270#comment-7424 <em>"I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they did not wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way against holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. <strong>All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. </strong>Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority"</em> Lord Acton, in a letter to Mandell Creighton. April 1887. (120+ years after these words were written, the truth remains...) “I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they did not wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way against holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. All 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 the certainty of corruption by authority”

Lord Acton, in a letter to Mandell Creighton. April 1887.

(120+ years after these words were written, the truth remains…)

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