The 24+ Ludwig Quidde Quotes

The Following Year, After I Had Prepared My Draft, The Conference Of The Interparliamentary Union At The Hague Decided To Set Up A Special Commission To Study The Problem Seriously.

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.

Armaments Are Necessary - Or Are Maintained On The Pretext Of Necessity - Because Of A Real Or An Imagined Danger Of War.

Among Pacifists It Was Above All The English Who Always Insisted On The Importance Of Disarmament. They Said That The Man In The Street Would Not Understand The Kind Of Pacifism That Neglected To Demand Immediate Restriction Of Armaments.

It Will Be Sufficient To Point To The Enormous Burdens Which Armaments Place On The Economic, Social, And Intellectual Resources Of A Nation, As Well As On Its Budget And Taxes.

Lightly Armed Nations Can Move Toward War Just As Easily As Those Which Are Armed To The Teeth, And They Will Do So If The Usual Causes Of War Are Not Removed.

Disarmament Or Limitation Of Armaments, Which Depends On The Progress Made On Security, Also Contributes To The Maintenance Of Peace.

Time And Time Again We Have Experienced Efforts Directed Toward This Popular And Simple Concept Of Securing Peace By Means Of Disarmament.

When Distrust Exists Between Governments, When There Is A Danger Of War, They Will Not Be Willing To Disarm Even When Logic Indicates That Disarmament Would Not Affect Military Security At All.

Thus, If Armaments Were Curtailed Without A Secure Peace And All Countries Disarmed Proportionately, Military Security Would Have Been In No Way Affected.

Some Pacifists Have Carried The Sound Idea Of The Prime Importance Of Security Too Far, To The Point Of Declaring That Any Consideration Of Disarmament Is Superfluous And Pointless As Long As Eternal Peace Has Not Been Attained.

Pacifist Propaganda And The Resolutions Of The Parliamentarians Encouraged Such Treaties, And Toward The End Of The Nineteenth Century Their Number Had Increased Considerably.