Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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