Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation.
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Sometimes ideals are necessary to motivate change even if they seem impractical.
Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
He ought to be slow to believe and to act, nor should he himself show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much conf…
A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that be…
Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.
A movement which is confined to philosophers and honest men can never exercise any real political influence: there are too few of them. Until a movement shows …
No problem exists between the army and the president and it is not necessary to create one artificially.