“Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.”
To Leon Goldensohn, June 16, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 245
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