Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
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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 affected.Ludwig Quidde
In any consideration of disarmament, a distinction must be drawn between the positions of pacifists, of members of parliament, and of governments.
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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.
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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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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.
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In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.
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