Jonathan

“above all things he must keep his hands off the property of others, because men more quickly forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. Besides,”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“this is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children, as is said above, when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you. And”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“But the matter just about resolved itself of its own accord, in a tragic and macabre way. We were still at war, and among other things Dönitz could only answer, ‘There is no longer any point in concerning yourself with submariners. Most of them are no longer with us …’.”
― Teddy Shuren, Teddy Suhren, Ace of Aces: Memoirs of a U-Boat Rebel

“a prince, so long as he keeps his subjects united and loyal, ought not to mind the reproach of cruelty; because with a few examples he will be more merciful than those who, through too much mercy, allow disorders to arise, from which follow murders or robberies; for these are wont to injure the whole people, whilst those executions which originate with a prince offend the individual only.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince