“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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