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States Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high taxes from starting…
- It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state…
- In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend;…
- 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…
- A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for, with a very…
- Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of…
- The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.
- Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have…
- Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways.…
- And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as…
- And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I…
- Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their…
- States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first…
- Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the evils that are…
- A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and…
- 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…
- It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they…
- For that reason, let a prince have the credit of conquering and holding his state, the means will always be considered honest, and he will…
- All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.
- The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms...…
More States Quotes
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur