This arose as a quotation by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834–1902). The historian and moralist, who was otherwise known simply as Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887.
" Power tends to corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely "
Another English politician with no shortage of names - William Pitt, the Elder, The Earl of Chatham and British Prime Minister from 1766 to 1778, is sometimes wrongly attributed as the source. He did say something similar, in a speech to the UK House of Lords in 1770:"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it"
THINK !
(1) Do you wish Singapore to go down that corrupt route by giving PAP the absolute power ???
(2) Our 1st few generations gov was relatively clean but that doesn't mean the future generation will not corrupt. What will happen if it does?? If you give PAP absolute power........YOU, the people (you might not see it but maybe your children, grand-children....) will be powerlessly in dire straits.
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