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In The Prince, Machiavelli refers to Savonarola and says, “Thus it comes about that all armed prophets have conquered and unarmed ones failed.”

Political Ideas are centered on the issue of ends (What kind of society do we want?) and means (How will we get it?).  In that one sentence about unarmed prophets Machiavelli settled for modern governments the question of ends: conquest.  And the question of means: force.

- Howard Zinn – Declarations of Independence

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