Michael DeSanta is living the American Dream by taking a Machiavellian approach to life. He believes the end justifies the means. In fact, many of Benjamin Franklin’s political comments and stances were in fact very close to being Machiavellian. What Michael is striving for personally is not tainted by the fact that he commits crimes because for many people the end product is what is of importance. Not how it became. In Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince he states, “Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, because it belongs to everybody to see you, too few to come in touch with you.” This is where the saying, “the end justifies the means” is derived from. People like Michael believe that what they do on the way to their goal doesn’t matter as long as they reach their goal. Michael doing whatever it takes to reach his goal also signifies the amount of effort and hard work Michael actually does.