The armies can be reduced and abolished only against the will, and not with the will, of the governments.  The armies will be reduced and abolished only when the people who, from fear or advantage, sell their liberty and take up a position in the ranks of the army are branded as murderers by public opinion. The armies will be reduced and abolished only when the people who, now unknown and condemned, refuse to give their liberty into the hands of other men to become instruments of murder, in spite of all persecutions and sufferings they bear, are recognized to be what they are: champions and benefactors of humanity. Only then will the armies at first be reduced and then be entirely abolished, and a new era will begin in the life of humanity.

Letter on the Peace Conference (January 1899)

Friends of the Doukhobors (1899)

Standing (from left to right):
Sergei L. Tolstoi, Anna de Carousa, Leo A. Soulerjitsky.
Seated (from left to right): Sasha Satz, Prince Hilkov, W.R. McCreary, Mary Robetz