Every government will always treat all those who, from conviction, refuse to do military service as the Doukhobors have been treated by the Russian government. At the same time that it proclaimed its quasi-peaceable intentions to the whole world, it secretly tormented, ruined, and expelled the most peaceable people of Russia, only because they were not peaceable in words, but in deeds, and so refused to do military service.  Just so, though less harshly, all the European governments have acted in cases of refusal to do military service. Thus have acted the Austrian, Prussian, French, Swedish, Swiss, and Dutch governments; nor can they act differently.

Letter on the Peace Conference (January 1899)

Sergey Tolstoy and Friends of the Doukhobors accompanying them to Canada (Winnipeg, 1899)