Machiavelli — "He who desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with the assumption…"

He who desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with the assumption that all men are bad, and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
Machiavelli — Machiavelli Early Modern · The Prince, political philosophy

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Discourses on Livy, Book I, Chapter III

Date: 1531

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