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It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a…
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The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede…
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When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic…
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Time and time again we have experienced efforts directed toward this popular and simple concept of securing peace by means of disarmament.
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Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.
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Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do…
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Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.
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Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in…
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Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of…
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I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two…
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Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way…
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Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any…
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The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
— Marya Mannes
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Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was…
— Grace Abbott
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Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes…
— Alice Miller
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We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.
— Ludwig Quidde
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I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a…
— Dennis Chavez
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Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
— Virginia Woolf
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It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly…
— Alberto Manguel
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Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of…
— Virginia Woolf
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I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them…
— Calvin Coolidge
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The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived…
— Adolf Hitler
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