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Hugo Grotius

So is there no kind of life more wicked than that of mercenary Souldiers, who without any respect had to the equity of the Cause, fight only for plunder and pay.
Hugo Grotius, The Most Excellent Hugo Grotius His Three Books Treating of the Rights of War and Peace (W. Evats, B.D., translators) p. 426.

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