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…

- Ludwig Quidde

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 f…

- Ludwig Quidde

Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.

- Ludwig Quidde

The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principle…

- Ludwig Quidde

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 …

- Ludwig Quidde

Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.

- Ludwig Quidde

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 woul…

- Ludwig Quidde

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

- Ludwig Quidde

Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbi…

- Ludwig Quidde