Briefly explain each quote. If you were a leader of an empire (ancient or modern) would you agree with it? How
would it change how you govern? Have we covered a civilization or society yet that would be described by the
quote?
Quote #1 - Niccolo Machiavelli - “Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for
slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.”
Quote #2 - Niccolo Machiavelli -"It is better to be feared than to be loved, if one cannot be both."
Quote #3 - Thomas Jefferson - “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only
object of good government.”
Quote #4 - Thomas Hobbes - “Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by
nature more individualistic than social.”
Quote #5 - Frederic Bastiat — “Government is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of
everyone else.”