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Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes: It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.
         

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.


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