Hugo Grotius

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, Prolegomena to the Law of War and Peace [1625]

• Hugo Grotius 1583-1645
  Oregon State University
• Hugo Grotius, 1583-1645
  History of Economic Thought
• Hugo Grotius (1586-1645)
  Acton Institute
• The Freedom of the Seas
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  Online Library of Liberty
• The Rights of War and Peace
  by Hugo Grotius
  Online Library of Liberty