Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1011 |
| AUTHOR: | Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) |
| QUOTATION: | Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals. |
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| SUBJECTS: | Law |