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. - Ernest Renan

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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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Ernest Renan (February 28, 1823 – October 12, 1892) was a French philosopher, playwright, historian, and writer.

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Alternative Names: Joseph Ernest Renan
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Colonization on a grand scale is a political necessity of absolutely the first order. A nation that does not colonize is irrevocably vowed to socialism, to war between rich and poor. The conquest of a nation of inferior race by a superior race, which establishes itself as the ruler, has nothing shocking about it.

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