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.
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From this arises the question Whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
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