A PRINCE, therefore, should have no care or thought but for war, and for the regulations and training it requires, and should apply himself exclusive… - Niccolò Machiavelli

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A PRINCE, therefore, should have no care or thought but for war, and for the regulations and training it requires, and should apply himself exclusively to this as his peculiar province; for war is the sole art looked for in one who rules, and is of such efficacy that it not merely maintains those who are born Princes, but often enables men to rise to that eminence from a private station;