POLI 100 Quiz: Quiz_ Machiavelli_ The Prince (4)
Document Summary
Of ecclesiastical principalities all the difficulties in ecc. Princ. come in obtaining possession; they are maintained with neither virtue nor fortune. How many kinds of military there are and concerning mercenary soldiers the principle foundations of all states are good laws and good arms. One cannot have good laws without good arms. There are three type s of arms: 1) one"s own; 2) mercenary; 3) mixed. A small stipend is not sufficient to get men to die for you. Of auxiliary, mixed, and one"s own soldiers auxiliary arms are harmful. When they lose for you, you are undone; when they win, you are beholden. The wise prince always uses his own arms. Without its own arms, no principality is secure. What a prince should do regarding the military prince should have no other object than the art of war, in both peacetime and wartime. One who is armed will never obey one who is unarmed.
