莊∙埃默列治∙愛德華∙竇伯－阿克頓，第一代阿克頓男爵（John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron of Acton），英國歷史學家、政治人物。
書信
edit| Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority. |
| 權力往往會腐化，絕對嘅權力必然導致絕對嘅腐化。偉大嘅人幾乎無一個唔係壞人，就算佢等用嘅係影響力而唔係統治權力都係恁話。 |
| 1887年4月5號寫畀曼道∙古理頓總主教嘅信 |