The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.

Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.

A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.

The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible.

Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.

As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.