Niccolo Machiavelli
"The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow."
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"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
"Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot."
"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred."
"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."
"Politics have no relation to morals."