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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 or human.
         

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.


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