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…hoping to advance their owne ends, and encroach on others rights, that will readily embrace the part of the afflicted, and proclaime the lawfulnesse of it: but the hope of gaine is the certaine and only aime of their purposes: And in this manner the Romans, Alexander the great, and divers others, pretending to suppresse Tyrants, have oftentimes enlarged their own limits.…
Stephen Junius Brutus — Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos, The fourth question. Whether neighbour Princes may, or are bound by law to aide the…, p. 135
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