| 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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