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Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. ↗

— Norman Macleod

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Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

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I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

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The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. ↗

— James Madison

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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ↗

— James Madison

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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. ↗

— James Madison

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