#HugoGrotius

“A boy-genius who escaped a life sentence hidden in a chest of books wrote, in exile, the book that gave war itself a law — and rebuilt law on foundations designed to survive even religious civil war.”

“Law does not stop at the border or fall silent in wartime — because it grows out of human nature itself, it would bind us, as he dared to write, "even if we should concede... that there is no God."”