Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely.