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Podcast: A New Voice of Freedom
Episode: Season 3 Podcast 180 The Road to Power, Machiavellian Pragmatism, Rule # 21, "Trample on Traditions"
Description: The Road to Power, Machiavellian Pragmatism, Rule # 21: “Trample on Traditions.”One of the first things any new tyrant must do is to destroy old traditions and old laws. Machiavelli understood that for a person to gain power and to hold power, he must not only destroy old laws, but he must establish new laws. In what I have called Machiavelli Rule # 21, Machiavelli said, “And nothing honours a man more than to establish new laws and new ordinances when he himself was newly risen. Such things when they are well founded and dignifie...