[A. Pole]

Per Machiavelli it's best to be loved, but if you can't be loved, then being feared also works.

Machiavelli would not recommend cowardly and idiotic methods. He warned that the worst for the ruler is to be despised.

Do you think that Kennedy gained much by trying to poison Castro?

[Oberon]

Machiavelli would not recommend cowardly and idiotic methods.

Well, no. But if it had looked like an accident, then...well...it would have looked like an accident, if you know what I mean.

You could be right. The Russians could always play chess.