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Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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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. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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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

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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

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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. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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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. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect. ↗

— William Watson

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We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments. ↗

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

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We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

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In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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