Collected here in one omnibus edition are Niccol? Machiavelli's most import works The Art of War and The Prince. It was Niccol? Machiavelli who essentially removed ethics from government. He did it with The Prince when he asserted that The Prince (president dictator prime minister etc.) does not have to be concerned with ethics as long as their motivation is to protect the state. It is this questionable belief that in many ways had lead to the modern world as we know it