Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
- Ludwig Quidde Quote

Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.
- Ludwig Quidde Quote

Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.
- Ludwig Quidde Quote

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.
- Ludwig Quidde Quote

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.
- Ludwig Quidde Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.
- Ludwig Quidde Quote

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.
- Ludwig Quidde Quote

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 Quote

The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously.
- Ludwig Quidde Quote

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 Quote

The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.
- Ludwig Quidde Quote

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 Quote

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.
- Ludwig Quidde Quote