Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

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

This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization.

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.

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

Propaganda is a topic of particular concern to peace associations. This is a matter of educating the population in general, and not least the voters.

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