Arbitration Quote by 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

International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one

— Ambrose Bierce

The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special…

— Ludwig Quidde

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 examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other…

— Charles Albert Gobat

The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference…

— Fredrik Bajer

I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me…

— Franjo Tudjman

Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration…

— Ludwig Quidde

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

In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it…

— Arthur Henderson