Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Prince. Translated by George Bull, Penguin Books, 1961, p. 62.
The terror to which he referred was to the French Revolution’s executing former aristocrats and then including anyone suspected of monarchist sympathies. This quotation shows how fanatics can rationalize evil as justice.
In England, the King was above the law. However, impeachment was a tool that could be used against his favorite ministers. In debating the United State Constitution one of the first questions to be determined was whether impeachment could be a tool used against the President or like, England, only the other government officials. Mason argued that the President must be included and his view prevailed. See also Benjamin Franklin: {642885}.
After the FBI had been spying on him for years. He was convicted of mail fraud for allegedly defrauding one man of $25. He spend 2 years in Federal prison and then was pardoned by President Calvin Coolidge. When he was released, he was deported.
The revolution turned on many of its initiators including Vergniaud. He was guillotined along with other Girondists.
Terror conceptually in France and some other countries was the tool the government used to inhibit criminals.
The quotation is text uttered by one of her characters.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian Renaissance diplomat, philosopher and writer, best known for The Prince (Il Principe), written in 1513. He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science.
