The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in the things that never change.

This is Rabbi Daniel Lapin on demand on the Blaze Radio Network.

Welcome every happy warrior to the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show, where your rabbi resolutely reveals how the world really works.

Thank you for being part of the show, and thank you for always remembering that a happy warrior knows that the more that things change,

the more we need to depend on those things that never change.

And one of those things that never changes is a statement made by the British politician and writer and historian and Catholic leader Lord Acton.

Lord Acton was busy and productive in England during the second half of the 19th century.

I think he was born in the 1830s maybe and he lived into about maybe 1902, something like that.

And for a long time, he took over the editorship of a very important Catholic magazine called The Rambler. It used to be edited

by Cardinal Newman and then Lord Acton did that. Lord Acton responded to an Anglican

bishop at one point. I haven't seen the letter of the bishop, but apparently it was

making the case that kings and popes and higher personages, members of the aristocracy, or to be judged

more leniently than other people because they have the interests of the public at heart

and they are more responsible and they are not going to be likely to do anything wrong.

And Lord Acton's response was to the very contrary.

He said, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. And he said, if anything,

if justice could still be served, I would want to punish the high ranking much more than the low

ranking for obvious reasons, right? Because their failures tend to erode values

throughout society. When we see those above us getting away with stuff, it's undermining.

It damages the morale of the society and of the country. And so Lord Acton was this very interesting guy.

By the way, he was also very supportive of the Confederacy

during the American Civil War.

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