In judging policies we should consider the results that have been achieved through them rather than the means by which they have been executed.


From an undated letter to Piero Soderini (translated here by Dr. Arthur Livingston), in The Living Thoughts of Machiavelli, by Count Carlo Sforza, published by Cassell, London (1942), p. 85

Niccolò Machiavelli Quotes

In judging policies we should consider the results that have been achieved through them rather than the means by which they have been executed.

In judging policies we should consider the results that have been achieved through them rather than the means by which they have been executed.

In judging policies we should consider the results that have been achieved through them rather than the means by which they have been executed.

In judging policies we should consider the results that have been achieved through them rather than the means by which they have been executed.