We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.
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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.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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Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.
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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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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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