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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1444
AUTHOR: John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (1834–1902)
QUOTATION: There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
ATTRIBUTION: LORD ACTON, letter to Mandell Creighton, April 5, 1887.—Acton, Essays on Freedom and Power, ed. Gertrude Himmelfarb, p. 336 (1972).
SUBJECTS: Power
 


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