Charles Albert Gobat Quotes

If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words, such offers should be made whenever a dispute becomes critical and threatens to explode into war.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

It is our duty to persuade the nations of the world, in whatever way that we can, to settle their differences in some other way. (Other than war)

Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful methods and procedures, administered by impartial institutions.

We can prevent fighting by limiting weapons or finding nonviolent ways to end disputes.

We must never relent in our efforts to resolve conflicts through diplomacy and through all of the instruments bestowed by the Charter of the United Nations.

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.

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war.

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order.

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

The external world is committed to helping Georgia settle its problems.

At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword.

A strong neutral is the trustee for civilization in a shell-shocked world.

Surely diplomacy is needed when there is conflict, not when there is harmony.

The UN is ultimately going to be judged on its ability in conflict resolution and conflict prevention.

Peacemaking and peacekeeping should run in parallel.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed; peace is preferable to war in almost every contingency. Arbitration is the true method of settlement of international as well as local or individual differences.

Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.

Is a military solution the only way to stop nations from doing bad things?

For many years I have known a good deal about international arbitrations and I have never known of one in which both nations in controversy did not benefit more from having the question between them settled than either gained from a favorable judgment or lost by an unfavorable one.

We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating human beings.