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kentuck

(111,103 posts) Fri Jun 8, 2018, 01:01 PM Jun 2018

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"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely",

So said Lord Acton.

This morning, the trump said that he "absolutely had the power to pardon himself".

According to the dictionary.com :

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely

An observation that a person's sense of morality lessens as his or her power increases. The statement was made by Lord Acton, a British historian of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely", (Original Post) kentuck Jun 2018 OP

donnie has been absolutely corrupt for at least all his adult life. unblock Jun 2018 #1

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1. donnie has been absolutely corrupt for at least all his adult life.

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Fri Jun 8, 2018, 01:03 PM

Jun 2018

probably way before that as well.

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