For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred...

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sa

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.