“War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.”
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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Politics have no relation to morals.
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.
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.
