Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years. -- Niccolo Machiavelli When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, "The Prince" "Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised." -- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
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