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Quotes from Speech at International Congress of Women at The Hague — Emily Greene Balch

1867–1961 United States

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A peace involving annexation of unwilling peoples could never be a lasting one.

Speech at International Congress of Women at The Hague (1915)

All the belligerents want peace, though probably with different intensity; none of them wants it enough to cry "I surrender."

Speech at International Congress of Women at The Hague (1915)

If the disinterested neutrals, who alone are free to act for peace, wait for a moment when neither side has any advantage they will wait long indeed.

Speech at International Congress of Women at The Hague (1915)

Gains won by force create no claim that anyone is bound to respect

Speech at International Congress of Women at The Hague (1915)

Everywhere war puts out of sight the moderates and the forces that make for peace and gives an exaggerated influence to militaristic and jingo forces creating a false impression of the pressure for extreme terms.

Speech at International Congress of Women at The Hague (1915)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Emily Greene Balch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.