While Luther and Machiavelli have fundamentally different approaches to reform, they both pursue the most direct solution to advance society. Machiavelli believes that the most direct measure is ruthless conquest for political gains, while Luther believes that faith brings one directly closer to God. ... For example, in "The Freedom of a Christian," Luther quotes Paul in Romans 10, when he says that man needs nothing more than faith to be righteous. ...

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In many ways Twain was correct in summarizing the sentiments of the anti-Imperialists in his quote, expressing the idea that imperialist (such as America) countries should basically keep their hands to themselves. ... By doing so America exploited the rights of the Chinese people by robbing them of the compensation that they would receive in direct trade with America. ...

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Bernard Bailyn composed the book The Origins of American Politics in the form of three essays, which were delivered, in their original form in November of 1965 as the Charles K. Colver Lectures at Brown University. They are the result of a combination of "two separately undertaken efforts of histori...

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In order to not be hated by the people Machiavelli stresses once again the importance of maintaining a certain image "everyone can see what you appear to be, whereas few have direct experience of what you really are, and those few will not dare to challenge the popular view" . ... This falls back to the first part of the original quote "there are two ways of contending: one by using laws, the other, force" . ...

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