Hugo Grotius Quotes
- Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine…
- Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
- I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on trifling pretexts or…
- By understanding many things, I have accomplished nothing.
- A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot…
- I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.
- A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.
- Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves
- Even God cannot make two times two not make four.