"To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious."

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"To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious."

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"Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance."

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