Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.
Limitation of armaments in itself is economically and financially important quite apart from security.
In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.
It is not rifles but people who triumph, and the conclusion from all the wars is that we need better people, not better rifles - to win wars, and mainly to avoid them.
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.
I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.
Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.
The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.