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... →
Ludwig Quidde
Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.
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... →
Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.
Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of... →
The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first... →
Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way... →
To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
Queen Rania of Jordan
I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the... →
I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
Francois Rabelais