Thomas Erskine Holland: “You can only blockade the ports of your enemy, and the South African Republics have no port of their own.”

But I go further, and think the softening of manners can alone bring about this result, which cannot be attained by a codification of the law of war.

The greatest kindness in war is to bring it to a speedy conclusion.

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

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.