Part one of term paper
In The Prince, Machiavelli offers his views on how a leader should rule his country based upon his past analysis of history. This advice was designed to help keep a ruler in power. Machiavelli had a very pessimistic, cruel, deceitful, and hypocritical view of how one should govern the world for he believed that it was the only way to gover ...

Part two of term paper
... Clinton is hardly unique when it comes to temptation and dishonesty. He would think that President Clinton attempted to do the right thing. Machiavelli's first piece of advice would be to keep a good public image so that Clinton will remain well respected. Machiavelli states that a man "must maintain himself in such a high standard that no one will ever think of cheating him or misleading him" (Prince 64). If he must do things that the public will not like, an option that he has is to lie to cov ...