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Top 10 Hugo Grotius Quotes (2025 Update)

Hugo Grotius Quote: “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.”

1. “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

Hugo Grotius Quote: “Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.”

2. “Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.”

— Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Hugo Grotius Quote: “By understanding many things, I have accomplished nothing.”

4. “By understanding many things, I have accomplished nothing.”

— Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius Quote: “Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.”

5. “Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.”

— Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius Quote: “A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.”

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

— Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius Quote: “Even God cannot make two times two not make four.”

7. “Even God cannot make two times two not make four.”

— Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius Quote: “I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.”

8. “I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.”

— Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Hugo Grotius Quote: “There is none of you who would not publicly exclaim that everyone should be moderator and arbitrator in his own matter, who would not command all citizens to use rivers and public places equally and indifferently, who would not with all his power defend the liberty of going hither and thither and trading.”

10. “There is none of you who would not publicly exclaim that everyone should be moderator and arbitrator in his own matter, who would not command all citizens to use rivers and public places equally and indifferently, who would not with all his power defend the liberty of going hither and thither and trading.”

— Hugo Grotius

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