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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Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.Ludwig Quidde
As long as it was only we poor pacifists who said that kind of thing we were treated as lunatics, as incurable utopians, or even as traitors.
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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.
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The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.
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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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I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.
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