Art Quote by Joseph Addison

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“A Prince, therefore, should have no care or thought but for war, and for the regulations and training it requires, and should apply himself…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to…

— Thomas More

It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.

— Jean-Paul Marat

“A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study, but war and its order…

— Nancy Goldstone

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not.…

— Joseph de Maistre

A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline;…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on…

— Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people…

— Thomas Jefferson