Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

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

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.

To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.

Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.

We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.

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.