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Niccolo Machiavelli, a dignified aristocrat of Florence Italy strived for peace and applied immense effort to maintain obedience. Machiavelli predominate goal was order and truth. ...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau maintained order in a similar fashion of “tough love.” Rousseau states that on the issue of “force and the effects of force” that, “so long as a People is constrained to obey, and does, in fact, obey, it does well. ...
Thomas Jefferson wrote in “The Declaration of Independence” that, “Governments long established should not changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ... Hannah Arendt wrote that, “To abolish the fences of laws between men - as tyranny does - means to take away man’s liberties and destroy freedom as a living political reality; for the space between men as it is hedged in by laws, is the living space of freedom. ...
Hannah Arendt said that, "by pressing men against each other, terror destroys the space between them; compared to the condition within its iron band, even the desert of tyranny, insofar as it is still some kind of space, appears like a guarantee of freedom. ... Thomas Jefferson believes that the function of the government is to ensure that all men are equal, with equal rights, “Life” or to live life, “Liberty” or to do so freely, “and the pursuit of happiness.
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