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Quotation from The Rights of War and Peace (Book I) by Hugo Grotius
“But because war is undertaken for the sake of peace, and there is no dispute, which may not give rise to war, it will be proper to treat all such quarrels, as commonly happen, between nations, as an article in the rights of war: and then war itself will lead us to peace, as to its proper end.”
The Rights of War and Peace (Book I), Book I, ch. I, §I, trans. A. C. Campbell (1814)
The opening section of the treatise, stating why the law of war belongs to the study of peace.
Citation: "But because war is undertaken for the sake of peace, and there is no dispute, which may not give rise to war, it will be proper to treat all such quarrels, as commonly happen, between nations, as an article in the rights of war: and then war itself will lead us to peace, as to its proper end." — Hugo Grotius, The Rights of War and Peace (Book I), Book I, ch. I, §I, trans. A. C. Campbell (1814). (id grotius-rights-of-war-and-peace-q1)
Portrait: Portret van Hugo de Groot (1583-1645) Rijksmuseum SK-A-581, Workshop of Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, Public domain.
