Affected Quote by Ludwig Quidde

A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may…

— Albert Einstein

“Military security has to rest, ultimately, on economic and polit ical stability. One of the effects of the rapidity of change in the world…

— Richard M. Nixon

The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is…

— William J. Brennan

It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning…

— Max Lerner

It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as…

— Ludwig Quidde

Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer…

— Ludwig Quidde

Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street…

— Ludwig Quidde

So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be…

— Ludwig Quidde

The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should…

— Ludwig Quidde

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight…

— Ludwig Quidde

Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.

— Ludwig Quidde

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

— Ludwig Quidde