1. Pillars Of Society-St. A, Machiavelli, Hobbes
... believe that wealth makes a country great. A country with wealth will have power because it will be able to defend itself and be able to influence other countries with fear of force or with economic sanctions or both. However, a country could be very wealthy and not have power if the people and/or its governments are corrupt. What makes a country truly great ... their own gods have done nothing whatever to preserve that republic that served them, and to restrain it from ruin by such precepts, but have rather hastened its destruction, by corrupting its morality through their pestilent ex...
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