Here are some additional sources to read about this topic:
Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Prince. David Wooten ed., Indianapolis, Hackett Pub., 1995.
Trosky, Leon. “A Means to an End.”
Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Prince. David Wooten ed., Indianapolis, Hackett Pub., 1995.
Trosky, Leon. “A Means to an End.”
www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/44/messages/923.html.
www.philosophybasics.com/branch_consequentialism.html.