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(17 votes)   Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.

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(16 votes)   Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.

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(10 votes)   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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(39 votes)   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.

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(38 votes)   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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(37 votes)   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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(33 votes)   Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.

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(32 votes)   Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.

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(17 votes)   In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

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(17 votes)   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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(15 votes)   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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(15 votes)   Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.

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(15 votes)   The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.

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(13 votes)   Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure.

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(13 votes)   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.

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