e you so far in acquiring and maintaining a kingdom. In order to maintain the New Kingdom, with its new laws and ways, one must use arms to make believers out of the non-believers.
             Chapter 7: Machiavelli tells us that one who acquires a kingdom with great ease or by just good fortune, will have many difficulties holding it. If the prince is not a great genius he will not know how to hold his kingdom and without faithful supporters he will surely lose his kingdom.
             Chapter 8: In acquiring lands by villainy there a
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