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skylter71 Donating Member (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-04 10:59 PM
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2. Bush Machiavelli and the Yurica Report
Machiavelli taught that it is dangerous for a leader to practice goodness. Instead, he must pretend to be good and then do the opposite. Machiavelli taught that a leader will succeed on appearances alone. A good leader puts his finger to the wind and changes course whenever it is expedient to do so. Machiavelli wrote this revealing passage that could be applied not only to false religious leaders but to a false President:

Let a prince therefore aim at conquering and maintaining the state, and the means will always be judged honourable and praised by every one, for the vulgar is always taken by appearances and the issue of the event; and the world consists only of the vulgar, and the few who are not vulgar are isolated when the many have a rallying point in the prince.” (p. 94)
The Yurica Report explains so much!!!

Please go to: http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm

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