Giovanni Francesco Lottini Quote

Every State, as has been said, should desire peace, and should manifest that desire both in word and action, but with all that, in her military preparations she should show herself warlike, for peace unarmed is a feeble thing.


Avvedimenti Civili (1574)


Every State, as has been said, should desire peace, and should manifest that desire both in word and action, but with all that, in her military...

Every State, as has been said, should desire peace, and should manifest that desire both in word and action, but with all that, in her military...

Every State, as has been said, should desire peace, and should manifest that desire both in word and action, but with all that, in her military...

Every State, as has been said, should desire peace, and should manifest that desire both in word and action, but with all that, in her military...