Thomas Erskine Holland: “Perpetual peace is a dream, and it is not even a beautiful dream.”

There may be members of the Institut who do not give up the hope that some day, thanks to the progress of civilisation, humanity will succeed in substituting an organised international justice for the wars which now-a-days take place…

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

What neutral States would ever take up arms for the sole reason that, two Powers being at war, the 'laws of war' had been violated by one or both of the belligerents?

Objections might, of course, be made to them as unlikely to produce their hoped-for effect, or as repugnant to our feelings of humanity or honour.