{"id":434,"date":"2003-10-21T21:11:33","date_gmt":"2003-10-22T01:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/10\/21\/lie-its-a-plan\/"},"modified":"2003-10-21T21:11:33","modified_gmt":"2003-10-22T01:11:33","slug":"lie-its-a-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/10\/21\/lie-its-a-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Lie: it&#8217;s a plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a622'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today my daughter announced finding the credo George Bush lives by.  It&#8217;s reprinted in her socials studies textbook, Michael Cranny&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.pearsoned.ca\/school\/secondary\/soc_sci\/bcsocsci\/updates.html\">Pathways; Civilizations Through Time<\/a>, p.223:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>So it follows that a prudent ruler cannot, and should not, honour his word when it places him at a disadvantage&#8230;.  If all men were good, this precept [rule] would not be good; but because men are wretched creatures who would not keep their word to you, you need not keep your word to them&#8230;.  One must know how to be a great liar and deceiver.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n&#8211; Nicolo Machiavelli, b.1469, as per his treatise, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.constitution.org\/mac\/prince00.htm\">The Prince<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today my daughter announced finding the credo George Bush lives by. It&#8217;s reprinted in her socials studies textbook, Michael Cranny&#8217;s Pathways; Civilizations Through Time, p.223: So it follows that a prudent ruler cannot, and should not, honour his word when it places him at a disadvantage&#8230;. If all men were good, this precept [rule] would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}