Almost fifty years ago, introducing my biography of Lord Acton, I wrote: “He is of this age, more than of his. He is, indeed, one of our great contemporaries.” A decade and a half later, in an essay ...

Nolan continued to lay out how this line speaks to Lord Acton's aphorism about how "absolute power corrupts absolutely." The ...

In our nightly news, we see playing out the prescient insight of Lord Acton, who wrote, "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." While some leaders manage to ward off this plague ...

This grim contrast, writ large, is now relevant to our current situation between red states and blue states, which suggests ...

When the UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe became the Prime Minister in December 2001 upon the United Front Alliance winning a ...

Mr. Guthrie enthusiastically quotes Lord Acton: 'Where ecclesiastical authority is restricted, religious liberty is denied.' And he invokes public opinion in the United States, and international ...

The founding fathers limited government’s scope and power because they recognized corruption was inevitable. As Lord Acton observed, “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Deeply ...

Etc. One final thought for now. Lord Acton made one of the most oft-repeated memorable lines about power: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. When considered in ...

It is a condition that led Lord Acton to assert that “power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Consequently, in a bid to curtail such abnormalities, arbitrariness ...

We all recognize the truth in Lord Acton’s aphorism, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” It is also true that like flies drawn to horse manure, the ...

The Estate Duty Act was abolished in 1985 due to concerns over high taxation rates and the efficiency of tax collection.