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When the end is good, it will always excuse the violent means used to found a state

Drawn from what Niccolò Machiavelli said

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

What Niccolò Machiavelli actually said

  1. Niccolò Machiavelli Florentine political philosopher and diplomat (1469 to 1527)
    For although the act condemn the doer, the end may justify him; and when, as in the case of Romulus, the end is good, it will always excuse the means; since it is he who does violence with intent to injure, not he who does it with the design to secure tranquility, who merits blame.

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