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.


Ch. 12 - The Prince (1513)

Niccolò Machiavelli Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...