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I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943. -- Simon van der Meer
Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference. -- Charles Albert Gobat
In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did. -- Otto Hahn
The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments. -- Fredrik Bajer
I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me could end up there, too. -- Franjo Tudjman
The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously. -- Ludwig Quidde
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. -- Fredrik Bajer
I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition. -- Otto Hahn
The secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters. -- Kurt Student
The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible. -- Fredrik Bajer
Milosevic did not die in The Hague - he was killed in The Hague. But, he had managed to defend the national and state interests of Serbia and the Serb people, and everybody should be grateful to him for that. -- Ivica Dacic
If we examine the Hague Convention carefully, we see that it considers the offer of good offices a duty of every nation. In other words, such offers should be made whenever a dispute becomes critical and threatens to explode into war. -- Charles Albert Gobat
I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference. -- Ludwig Quidde
I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right. -- Harriet Harman
William Hague, the world's favourite hairline. -- Rory Bremner
An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau. -- Fredrik Bajer
The coming week in The Hague may prove to be one of the most important in the three-and-a-half-billion year history of life on earth. -- Tony Juniper
I did not vote Labour because they've heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap. -- Ben Elton
I am ready to face the International Criminal Court of Justice at the Hague for prosecution over roles played by me when the war ended -- Yakubu Gowon
As far as co-operation with The Hague is concerned it's impossible (to arrest Milosevic) by March 31 without an agreement on the federal level despite the consequences such a move could have. -- Zoran ?in?ic
The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to the German Army, were, in my opinion, completely in accordance with the Hague Convention. -- Paul Blobel
Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq. -- Norman Schwarzkopf

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