Quote a sentence or two from The Prince that best summarizes the entire work and explain why you believe it's the best statement to use.Discussion...

"The Prince" is a practical guide for
ruling a country.  The general theme of "The Prince" is the
acceptance that the aims of rulers, such as glory and power, can justify the use of
immoral means to achieve these ends.

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Only the expenditure of one’s own resources is
harmful; and, indeed, nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does. The more it is
indulged, the fewer are the means to indulge it further. As a consequence, a prince
becomes poor and contemptible or, to escape poverty, becomes rapacious and hateful. Of
all the things he must guard against, hatred and contempt come first, and liberality
leads to both. Therefore it is better to have a name for miserliness,
which breeds disgrace without hatred, than, in pursuing a name for liberality, to resort
to rapacity, which breeds both disgrace and
hatred.

This
quote is found in Chapter 16 of "The Prince".  Machiavelli advises
the prince to disregard the traditional principles of virtue because these principles
will ultimately be detrimental to the prince's ability to rule.