![To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
[Lat., Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.]](/assets/img/quote-photos/to-rob-to-ravage-to-murder-in-their-imposing-language-are-the-arts-of-civil-p.jpg)
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