The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws.

From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wis…

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…

Hence it comes that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.

Within the state we have made defense of the individual the obligation of the whole community, and by that fact have established such preponderance of power on…

We can and must deter terror; we can and must conduct surveillance; we can and must find terror cells and plotters; and we need to fight them aggressively in t…

The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as often as he shall have s…