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...leggi, io Jaecero indietro il ragionare delle leggi, e parlero dell' armi. The principal foundation of all states (whether new, old, or mixed) are good laws and good arms ; and because there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms, and where there are good...

...giving rise to tumult and discord among the Barons. His Holiness, Pope Leo, has consequently found found the Papacy most powerful ; and from him we may...good laws and good soldiers. But since you cannot cannot have the former without the latter, and where you have the latter, are likely to have the former,...

...commonly seek to acquire them, it now remains that I should discourse generally concerning the means for attack and defence of which each of these different...whether new, old, or mixed, are good laws and good arms. But since you cannot have the former without the latter, and where you have the latter, are likely...

...commonly seek to acquire them, it now remains that I should discourse generally concerning the means for attack and defence of which each of these different...of all States, whether new, old, or mixed, are good Jaws and good arms. But since you cannot have the former without the latter, and where you have the...

...commonly seek to acquire them, it now remains that I should discourse generally concerning the means for attack and defence of which each of these different...whether new, old, or mixed, are good laws and good arms. But since you cannot have the former without the latter, and where you have the latter, are likely...

...against constitutional rule; far from it. But power was the first issue to be considered. "The main bases of all states, whether new, old or mixed, are good laws and good arms. And, since there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms, and where there are good...

...commonly seek to acquire them, it now remains that I should discourse generally concerning the means for attack and defence of which each of these different...whether new, old, or mixed, are good laws and good arms. But since you cannot have the former without the latter, and where you have the latter, are likely...

...classics on military subjects, The Art of War. Machiavelli, who later was to • write : "The chief foundations of all states, whether new, old, or mixed, are good laws and good arms," was born in 1469 of middle-class parents in Florence. Throughout his life his only compelling...