1 It is likewise shown that no army can be good unless it be thoroughly trained and exercised, and that this can only be the case with an army raised from your own subjects.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXI. 2 Those armies which do otherwise are not true armies, and if ever they have any success, it is owing to the fury and impetuosity of their onset and not to trained and steady valour.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXVI. 3 In conclusion, therefore, I repeat that the prince who has his people armed and trained for war, should always await a great and dangerous war at home, and never go forth to meet it.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII. 4 For as a State is not and cannot always be at war, you must have opportunity to train your army in times of peace; but this, having regard to the cost, you can only have in respect of your own subjects.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXI. 5 And the method they are said to have followed was to train their men for some months in mimic warfare, so as to accustom them to discipline and obedience, after which they employed them with complete confidence on actual service.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXVIII. 6 For whosoever would have a good army must train it, either by real or by mimic warfare, to approach the enemy, to come within sword-thrust, and to grapple with him; and must rely more on foot soldiers than on horse, for reasons presently to be explained.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVII. 7 Nor can we reasonably pronounce that city ill-governed wherein we find so many instances of virtue; for virtuous actions have their origin in right training, right training in wise laws, and wise laws in these very tumults which many would thoughtlessly condemn.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV. 8 Touching the cause of this, many are content to believe that such is their nature, which, indeed, I take to be true; but we are not, therefore, to assume that the natural temper which makes them brave at the outset, may not be so trained and regulated as to keep them brave to the end.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXVI. 9 But of this impetuosity and fury, trained valour, when occasion requires, will make use; nor will any danger daunt it or cause it to lose heart, its courage being kept alive by its discipline, and its confidence fed by the hope of victory which never fails it while that discipline is maintained.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXVI. 10 This gave rise to two disadvantages: first that a smaller number of men were trained to command; second, that by the long continuance of his command a captain gained so much influence and ascendency over his soldiers that in time they came to hold the senate of no account, and looked only to him.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXIV. 11 Now, any one who well considers the methods followed by Camillus, and the words spoken by him to encourage his soldiers to face their enemy, will perceive that these words and methods could never have been used with an army which had not been trained and disciplined in time of peace as well as of war.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXI. 12 In armies of the third sort both natural spirit and trained valour are wanting; and to this class belong the Italian armies of our own times, of which it may be affirmed that they are absolutely worthless, never obtaining a victory, save when, by some accident, the enemy they encounter takes to flight.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXVI. 13 For when these men have been brought up in a corrupt city, where their training is little likely to improve them, nothing that can happen will induce them to withdraw their pretensions; nay, to have their own way and satisfy their perverse humour, they will be content to look on while their country is ruined.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXX. 14 Such, of old, was the kingdom of the Egyptians, which, though of all lands the most bountiful, yet, by the severe training which its laws enforced, produced most valiant soldiers, who, had their names not been lost in antiquity, might be thought to deserve more praise than Alexander the Great and many besides, whose memory is still fresh in men's minds.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I. 15 When a city therefore is armed and trained as Rome was, and when its citizens have daily opportunity, both singly and together, to make trial of their valour and learn what fortune can effect, it will always happen, that at all times, and whether circumstances be adverse or favourable, they will remain of unaltered courage and preserve the same noble bearing.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXI. 16 Such practice, or particular knowledge as it may be termed, is sooner acquired in the chase than in any other exercise; and, accordingly, we find it said by ancient historians that those heroes who, in their day, ruled the world, were bred in the woods and trained to the chase; for this exercise not merely gives the knowledge I speak of, but teaches countless other lessons needful in war.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContextHighlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXXIX. 17 And even in recent times, any one contemplating the kingdom of the Soldan, and the military order of the Mamelukes before they were destroyed by Selim the Grand Turk, must have seen how carefully they trained their soldiers in every kind of warlike exercise; showing thereby how much they dreaded that indolence to which their genial soil and climate might have disposed them, unless neutralized by strenuous laws.
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