Thomas Erskine Holland: “Le câble télégraphique sous-marin qui unit deux territoires neutres est inviolable.”

If in our own day a law recognised by the civilised world forbids, in a general way, the soldier to make booty in warfare on land, we have here a great advance in civilisation, and the jurists have had their share in bringing it about.

Only compare the horrors of the Thirty Years' War with the struggles of modern times.

War is an element in the order of the world ordained by God.

To open and facilitate the settlement of trifling disputes between nations by judicial methods, war being unquestionably a method out of all proportion in such cases.