And for as moche as to me there is not come any occasion to be able, to shewe the preparacions made of me, to reduce the servise of warre into his auncient orders, if I have not reduced it, I cannot be of you, nor of other blamed: I beleve this excuse shuld suffise for answere to your Accusement.
"Machiavelli, Volume I The Art of War; and The Prince"
Niccolò Machiavelli