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“He will see the doctrine of arbitration, welcomed as a newly-discovered panacea by our amiable enthusiasts, more firmly established in theory than it is yet likely to be in modern Europe, and as impotent to avert the evils of war from the communities who provided for it in every treaty, and invoked it whenever it seemed their interest to do so.”

Richard Crawley, History of the Peloponnesian War
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History of the Peloponnesian War History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
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