Top 10 Quotes by Hugo Grotius

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 govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are

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 govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

Hugo Grotius

Family, Leadership, Passion

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 or human.

Hugo Grotius

War, Taken, Men

Hugo Grotius, Stephen C. Neff (2012). “Hugo Grotius on the Law of War and Peace: Student Edition”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.

Hugo Grotius

Liberty

Hugo Grotius (1814). “The Rights of War and Peace: Including the Law of Nature and of Nations”, p.12

A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

Hugo Grotius

Men, Rights, Perfect

Hugo Grotius (1814). “The Rights of War and Peace: Including the Law of Nature and of Nations”, p.28

By undertaking many things, I have accomplished nothing.

Hugo Grotius

Understanding, Accomplished

"Hugo Grotius on the Law of War and Peace: Student Edition".

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 none at all, and carried on without any reference of law, Divine or human.

Hugo Grotius

Christian, War, Fighting