of Congress
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions. Fredrik Bajer
Popular congresses are the only means to achieve popular democracy. Any system of government other than popular congresses is undemocratic. Muammar Gaddafi
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. Fredrik Bajer
And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian. Hjalmar Branting
From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world. Leon Jouhaux
As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved. Lester B. Pearson