Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet (1802–1880) Lord Chief Justice
Reg. v. Hicklin and another (1868), 11 Cox, C. C. 27; S. C. 3 L. R. Q. B. 372; reported in Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904) by James William Norton-Kyshe, p. 92.
“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.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli, book The Prince
Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 12; translated by W. K. Marriot
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