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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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Ludwig Quidde
Age: 82 †
Born: 1858
Born: March 23
Died: 1941
Died: March 5
German Politician
Historian
Medievalist
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Hansestadt Bremen
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The present level of armaments could be taken as the starting point. It could be stipulated in an international treaty that these armaments should be simultaneously and uniformly reduced by a certain proportion in all countries.
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We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.
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Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.
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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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Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.
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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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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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Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.
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When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.
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Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.
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