Did Lord Acton say “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”?

Did Lord Acton say “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”?

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The story of Ruth is one of the most beautiful in the Bible. It begins in dislocation and grief. Famine leads Elimelekh, together with his wife Naomi and their two sons, to leave their home in Bethlehem, Judah, to go to Moab to find food. There, the sons marry Moabite women, but all three men die, leaving Naomi and her two daughters-in-law childless widows. Naomi decides to return home, and Ruth,
Ceremony and Celebration; Introduction to the Holidays — Jewish Thought · Modern / Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks · Per Sefaria text version: Maggid Books, 2017 / https://korenpub.com/products/ceremony-celebration (licences vary: public domain, CC0, CC BY, some CC BY-NC) · source

Tribes One of the most visible features of Numbers as a book – conspicuously so in Parashat Naso – is the great attention it pays to tribes. The book begins with the people being counted according to tribe. Then we read about their positioning in the camp around the Tabernacle by tribe. The order in which they travelled in their journeys through the wilderness was also by tribe. In this parasha ,
Covenant and Conversation; Numbers; The Wilderness Years — Tanakh · Modern Commentary on Tanakh / Jonathan Sacks / Covenant and Conversation · Per Sefaria text version: Maggid Books and the Orthodox Union, 2009-2019 / https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH990027813930205171/NLI (licences vary: public domain, CC0, CC BY, some CC BY-NC) · source

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