[The Great Satan]

Actually, Caligula said "I don't care if they hate me, so long as they fear me," which does not even express the same idea. As Machiavelli correctly points out, "love" is a chimera in the context of politics. In the context of war -- which is the current context -- it is even more irrelevant.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Caligula said "I don't care if they hate me, so long as they fear me,"

Actually, according to Suetonius, in his section on Caligula in his Vitae Caesarum, what Caligula said was: 'Oderint, dum metuant.', which is translated: 'May they hate me, if only they fear me.' In any case Feenian has misrepresented both the source and the meaning of the quote on which the thread is based, out of his ignorance, or malevolence.