Thomas Erskine Holland: “This was, in my opinion, a mistake, which has been avoided in more recent times, in which the written law of war has…”

Men of nations readily disunited and opposed--Germans and French, English and Russians, Spaniards and Dutchmen, Italians and Austrians--are, as a rule, all of one mind as to the principles of international law.

It is surely desirable that henceforth Great Britain should know, and that other nations should at least have the means of knowing, for certain, whether she is at war or at peace.

The need for pressure of any kind is, of course, regrettable, the only question being whether such limited pressure be not more humane to the nation which experiences it, and less distasteful to the nation which exercises it, than is the…

No, you must attack all the resources of the enemy's Government: its finances, its railways, its stores, and even its prestige.