Thomas Erskine Holland: “An Englishman's Home was a play accurately representing the accepted practice, shocking as it must be.”

States differ so widely in offensive power and vulnerability that it would be hardly advisable thus to fetter the liberty of action of a State which considers itself to have been injured.

Perpetual peace is a dream, and it is not even a beautiful dream.

This being so, it is necessary to recognise also that increased humanity in the mode of making war has in reality followed upon the gradual softening of manners.

It is impossible for the soldier who endures sufferings, hardships, fatigues, who meets danger, to take only 'in proportion to the resources of the country.' He must take whatever is needful for his existence.