Ludwig Quidde Quotes

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

If the world is disarmed, and remains disarmed, there will be no more world wars.

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.

I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.

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.

We should, I believe, announce in no uncertain terms that we are against disarmament.

Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does.

The Mutual Security Act was intended not to fight a war but to prevent a war.

Disarment ... is a continuing imperative.

There is an urgent need for disarmament of all kinds, but especially nuclear disarmament.

So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.

It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

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.

I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations.

Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.

The goal [of disarmament] is no longer a dream. It is a practical matter of life or death. The risks inherent in disarmament pale in comparison to the risks inherent in an unlimited arms race...

If peace should break out, what are we going to do with all these weapons.

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

The core of detente [with Russia] is the reduction in arms.

Wars are most often won by those who have made the greatest effort to prevent them.

Deterrence is to prevent war, not to win a war.