Was Machiavelli's Qualities Of A Good Leader

The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli which was originally “distributed in 1513” (Machiavelli), is a formal discourse over how a leader will obtain and preserve government power with their subjects and the realm of which they rule. Machiavelli’s Qualities of the Prince emphasizes on what makes a good leader, and he especially claims that a prince should “make himself feared in such a manner that he will avoid hatred” and if “he must take someone’s life, he should do so when there are proper justification and manifest cause,” “but, above all, he should avoid the property of others.”
Because a new prince has to use force to establish order, he cannot avoid acquiring a reputation for cruelty, Machiavelli insists, though he admits that it would be best for a leader to be both feared and loved, and that a leader could be both feared and loved if he succeeded in establishing and maintaining order where there had been none. However, since it is difficult to be both loved and feared, Machiavelli cautions, it is safer

Take King John for example, who ruled in England during the 13th century, he “was a tyrant. He was a wicked ruler who did not behave like a king. He was greedy and took as much money as he could from his people” (Paris). King John had contempt for the Jewish people and “confiscated their property and effects, and expelled them from the country, by a public edict” (Goodrich). Because of his self-indulgence, his rule quickly came to an end and right before his succession he tried to flee with his fortune only to be met with a rather unpleasant death and he lost all his riches. The transcript of the Qualities of the Prince tries to ensure the progress of a leader’s realm by focusing on a gain of support from the people. The only sure way to accomplish this is by preserving the people’s rights and