The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.
Charles de Montesquieu
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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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.
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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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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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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.
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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.
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I can assure you that no kingdom has ever had as many civil wars as the kingdom of Christ.
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced wars; it is the intolerant spirit animating that which believed itself in the ascendant.
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