Legal Outlines Being the Substance of the First Title of a Course of Lectures
Legal Outlines Being the Substance of the First Title of a Course of Lectures
David Hoffman
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5. A prince should gain the confidence of the neigh- bouring petty states; protect them against one another; then sow discord among them, so that he may be enabled to exalt or depress which of them he pleases. 6. Newly conquered states, who formerly enjoyed liber- ty and their own laws, can be secured only in three ways: first, by destroying or ruining them; secondly, by their new master residing in person among them; and thirdly, by letting them enjoy their former laws, but upon condition of t...heir paying tribute, and having a council of their own citizens (appointed by the prince) who shall be responsible for all that is due to him. 7. Men are fickle and inconstant. It is therefore ne- cessary to be in a condition to make them believe by force, when they will no longer believe of themselves. 8. Whoever imagines that the merit of new obligations will extinguish the resentment of former injuries and dis- gusts among great men, will find himself, at last, egre- giously mistaken. 9. Whoever would secure himself in a new principality, against the attempts of enemies, and finds it necessary to gain friends, to surmount obstacles either by force or fraud, to make himself beloved and feared by his people, respect- 54 426 OF THE FORMS OF GOVERNMENT.
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