Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 6; translated by N. H. Thomson
“If the prophets were to be elected by the "popular votes" of democracy, then no prophet could have ever been a prophet.”
Speech in a workshop, Rajshahi, 2013, (English Translation).[citation needed]
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