There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the … - Niccolo Machiavelli

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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.

Niccolo Machiavelli

There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things. . . . . Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable.

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Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.

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