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

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.

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

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.

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.

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.