Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge are their arms to be returned or not?

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Potentially a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

If the opposition disarms well and good. If it refuses to disarm we shall disarm it ourselves.

As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.