To: Nachum
“Princes ought either be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so the the injury done to a Prince ought to be so severe that his vengeance cannot be feared.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
25 posted on
03/27/2011 12:51:45 PM PDT by
Bean Counter
(Stout Hearts!I)
To: Bean Counter
Princes ought either be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so the the injury done to a Prince ought to be so severe that his vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli
"In war there is no substitute for victory."
Douglas MacArthur
53 posted on
03/27/2011 6:47:39 PM PDT by
Renderofveils
(My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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