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 * PAPER #1 DUE OCTOBER 25th 2010**

Many see Niccolo Machiavelli’s **//The Prince//** as the handbook for the creation of modern politics. Although written in the 16th century, Machiavelli’s book has a very contemporary feel to it.

Your assignment will include the following:

1.Pick 5 quotes out of the Prince to examine more closely. 2. Interpret the quotation; 3. Use evidence from the text to support your claims; 4. Offer a real life example (contemporary, historical) to illustrate your understanding.

Your paper will be 2-3 pages in length, 12 font Times New Roman, double-spaced with correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation. When necessary, make sure you support your claims and evidence. Do not over quote. When citing use parenthetical citations.

1. "A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and its organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands." 2. "He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building." 3. "Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are." //4.// "Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved**//."//** 5. "And that prince who bases his power entirely on...words, finding himself completely without other preparations, comes to ruin;" 6. "Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together by a chain of obligation which, since men are wretched creatures, is broken on every occasion in which their own interests are concerned; but fear is sustained by dread of punishment which will never abandon you." 7. "One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage." 8. "For a prince should have two fears: one, internal concerning his subjects; the other, external, concerning foreign powers. From the latter he can Always defend himself by his good troops and friends; and he will always have good friends if he has good troops." 9. "And here one must not believe that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I said above, if a prince wishes to maintain the state, he is often obliged not to be good; because whenever that group which you believe you need to support you is corrupted, whether it be the common people, the soldiers, or the nobles, it is to your advantage to follow their inclinations in order to satisfy them;; And then good actions are your enemy." 10."And it will always happen that he who is not your friend will request your neutrality and he who is your friend will ask you to declare yourself by taking up arms. And irresolute princes, in order to avoid present dangers, follow the neutral road most of the time, and most of the time they are ruined."
 * Quotations from The Prince**