Machiavelli — "War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope exc…"

"A prince must have no other object, no other thought, nor take anything else for his art, but war and its orders and discipline; for this is the only art that belongs to him who rules."

"Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved."

"And it is to be noted that in taking a state, the conqueror must arrange to commit all his cruelties at once, so as not to have to repeat them daily, but to be able, by not repeating them, to reassure…"

"For the nature of men is such that they are much more bound by the benefits they confer than by those they receive."

"Men are by nature much more inclined to evil than to good; and therefore, if you would have the good, you must put them under the necessity of being so."