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Niccolò Machiavelli on Justice

1469–1527 Italy

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There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few.

For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manners that laws may be maintained.

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius (1965)

In judging policies we should consider the results that have been achieved through them rather than the means by which they have been executed.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Niccolò Machiavelli (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.