Article note: It took me a while to have time to sit down and read this - it's not short - but it's a fabulous piece.
Also, I'm apparently overdue to reread the bridge trilogy.
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
— [apparently not actually]Louis Veuillot, but attributed to him a century before Frank Herbert did so