Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

Augustus

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If I am often seen at the theatre, people will cease to notice me.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Jim Morrison

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I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

Tupac Shakur

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Democracy is not based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair play, on freedom, on respecting the rights of other people. Democracy is no harlot to be picked up in the street by a man with a tommy gun. I trust the people, the mass of the people, in almost any country, but I like to make sure that it is the people and not a gang of bandits who think that by violence they can overturn constituted authority.

Winston Churchill

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No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.

Vladimir Putin

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