"Les citoyens sont les membres de la societe civile : lies a cette societe par certains devoirs et soumis a son autori…"

"Les naturels, ou indigenes, sont ceux qui sont nes dans le pays, de parens citoyens."

"car si vous y etes ne d'un etranger, ce pays sera seulement le lieu de votre naissance, sans etre votre patrie"

"I am much obliged by the kind present you have made us of your edition of Vattel. It came to us in good season, when …"

"Thus Vattel, in the preliminary chapter to his Treatise on the Law of Nations, says"

"It may not be doubted that the very conception of a just government and its duty to the citizen includes the reciproc…"

"In 1775, Benjamin Franklin acknowledged receipt of three copies of a new edition, in French, of Vattel's Law of Natio…"

"It was over two centuries late, but a copy of a library book George Washington borrowed was returned yesterday to a N…"

"Emmerich de Vattels’ 1758 Law of Nations was on George Washington’s desk on the first day of his presidency. Law of N…"

"[...] qui expresse non dicit substantiam, neque accidens, neque Deum, nec creaturam, sed haec omnia per modum unius, …"