“ 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. ”
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1532). copy citation
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1532
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Translated by W. K. Marriott