The best proof of that oppression is the fact that the Pope dares not trust his own subjects with arms, but places himself, like Dionysius of Syracuse, in the hands of foreign mercenaries.
From his autobiography, explaining his view on the papal government's reliance on foreign forces to maintain power.
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