Its a free choice answer.
machiavelli only said that because he believed that if people feared him hed be more powerful ,than if people loved him
They did not want their people to turn against them if they believed in different things. Roman leaders wanted to take control since they had the power to do it. Even as a republic, only some men have the right to speak.
Because in 1867, Ulysses S. Grant charged Sheridan with pacifying the Great Plains, where warfare with Native Americans was wreaking havoc. In an effort to force the Plains people onto reservations, Sheridan used the same tactics he used in the Shenandoah Valley: he attacked several tribes in their winter quarters, and he promoted the widespread slaughter of American bison, their primary source of food.
His opponent was B. Richard Nixon
It was Henry David Thoreau. He was even sent to prison for not paying taxes that would go towards funding the war effort.
