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The chief foundations of every state are good laws and good arms, and good laws depend on being well armed
Drawn from what Niccolò Machiavelli said
What Niccolò Machiavelli actually said
- Niccolò Machiavelli Florentine political philosopher and diplomat (1469 to 1527)
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.
Where this was said
↗The Prince (tr. W. K. Marriott, 1908)gutenberg.org
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