Niccolo Machiavelli: "Beberapa pangeran, agar dapat memegang negara de...

"Beberapa pangeran, agar dapat memegang negara dengan aman, telah melucuti rakyatnya, yang lain telah membuat kota-kota mereka terganggu oleh faksi-faksi ... Nenek moyang kita, dan mereka yang dianggap bijaksana, terbiasa mengatakan bahwa perlu memegang Pistoia [ sebuah kota Italia] oleh faksi-faksi dan Pisa oleh benteng, dan dengan gagasan ini mereka memupuk pertengkaran di beberapa kota-kota anak sungai mereka agar lebih mudah memilikinya."

--- Niccolo Machiavelli

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Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, were accustomed to say that it was necessary to hold Pistoia [an Italian city] by factions and Pisa by fortress, and with this idea they fostered quarrels in some of their tributary towns so as to keep possession of them the more easily.