One can take exception to this idea on the grounds that a method of disarmament exists which does not interfere with military security.
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Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.Ludwig Quidde
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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Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.
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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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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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The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.
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