"The present level of armaments could be taken……" — 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 be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries."
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Ludwig Quidde
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24 Quotes by Ludwig Quidde
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It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources…
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The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must…
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When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even…
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Time and time again we have experienced efforts directed toward this popular and simple concept of securing peace by means…
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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…
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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…
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Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined…
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I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided…
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Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in…
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Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring…
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