| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 1011 |
| AUTHOR: | Niccolò Machiavelli (14691527) |
| QUOTATION: | Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI, Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, trans. Allan Gilbert, book 1, chapter 18, p. 241 (1965). |
| SUBJECTS: | Law |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | WORKS: | Niccolo Machiavelli Collection | | |
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