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#armament

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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.


Ludwig Quidde


#assume #completely #danger #dare #demand

So long as peace is not attained by law (so argue the advocates of armaments) the military protection of a country must not be undermined, and until such is the case disarmament is impossible.


Ludwig Quidde


#armaments #attained #case #country #disarmament

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


#attained #been #carried #consideration #declaring

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.


Ludwig Quidde


#attainment #disarmament #idea #lasting #lasting peace

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.


Ludwig Quidde


#certain #could #countries #international #level

Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.


Ludwig Quidde


#armaments #been #countries #curtailed #disarmed

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.


Ludwig Quidde


#between #danger #disarm #disarmament #distrust

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.


Roger Nash Baldwin


#am #class #communism #control #disarmament

With the aid of this credit policy, however, Germany created an armament second to none, and this armament in turn made possible the results of our policy.


Hjalmar Schacht


#armament #created #credit #germany #however

The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting.


Hjalmar Schacht


#assurance #bringing #certain #certain level #exchange






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