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— Ludwig Quidde"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."
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Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
— Ludwig Quidde
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It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments.
— Frank B. Kellogg
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