Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.

Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their innate evil passions as often as they can do so with safety.

You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else's self-esteem.

Change has no constituency.

There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.