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A prince who can do as he pleases is a madman, and an unrestrained people is never wise
Drawn from what Niccolò Machiavelli said
What Niccolò Machiavelli actually said
- Niccolò Machiavelli Florentine political philosopher and diplomat (1469 to 1527)
And to state the sum of the whole matter shortly, I say that popular governments have endured for long periods in the same way as the governments of princes, and that both have need to be regulated by the laws; because the prince who can do what he pleases is a madman, and the people which can do as it pleases is never wise.
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↗Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius (Ninian Hill Thomson translation, 1883)gutenberg.org
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