Arbitration Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference.

— Charles Albert Gobat

Both President Obama and I shared the conviction that territorial and maritime disputes in the Asia Pacific region should be settled peacefully based on…

— Benigno Aquino III

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field…

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom…

— Richard Cobden

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

— Benjamin Franklin

If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a…

— Alfred Hermann Fried

We believe that big nations should not bully smaller nations, and that the sovereignty of nations must be respected. And we have long urged…

— Barack Obama

A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer…

— Randal Cremer

Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then,…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Against the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history,…

— Thomas Sowell

It is one of the most fatal illusions that, by substituting negotiations between states or organized groups for competition for markets or for raw…

— Friedrich August von Hayek