Edmund Burke: ""Perang," kata Machiavelli, "seharusnya...

""Perang," kata Machiavelli, "seharusnya menjadi satu-satunya studi pangeran;" dan oleh seorang pangeran ia berarti segala bentuk negara, bagaimanapun dibentuk. "Dia seharusnya," kata dokter politik yang hebat ini, "menganggap perdamaian hanya sebagai waktu bernafas, yang memberinya waktu luang untuk berjuang, dan memberikan kemampuan untuk melaksanakan rencana militer." Sebuah meditasi tentang perilaku masyarakat politik membuat Hobbes tua membayangkan bahwa perang adalah keadaan alami."

--- Edmund Burke

Versi Bahasa Inggris

"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.