“War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.”

“Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.”

“Think, too, of the great part that is played by the unpredictable in war: think of it now, before you are actually comitted to war. The longer a war lasts, the more things tend to depend on accidents. Neither you nor we can see into them: we have to abide their outcome in the dark. And when people are entering upon a war they do things the wrong way round. Action comes first, and it is only when they have already suffered that they begin to think.”

“When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.”

“Difficulty of subsistence made the invaders reduce the numbers of the army to a point at which it might live on the country during the prosecution of the war.”

“...when these matters are discussed by practical people, the standard of justice depends on the equality of power to compel...”

“It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.”