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

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

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

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.

Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.

Pacifists should stress more and more that it is the rule of law for which they are fighting.

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.