Men will fight whenever they want to fight, and no artificial scheme or process is likely to restrain them.

It is mainly the costliness of war that makes most against it.

But, as we have seen the last four years, it will not quell the passions of men or dull national and racial ambitions.
All that Mr.Wilson and his proposed League of Nations can do will be to revamp, and maybe for a while to reimpress the minds of the rank and file, until the bellowing followers of Bellona are ready to spring.
Eternal peace, universal peace, was not the purpose of the Deity in the creation of the universe.
Nevertheless, it would seem to be the duty of men in great place, as of us all, to proclaim the gospel of good will and cultivate the arts of fraternity.

I have no quarrel with the President on this score.

What I contest is the self-exploitation to which he is prone, so lacking in dignity and open to animadversion.
V Thus it was that instant upon the appearance of the proposed League of Nations I made bold to challenge it, as but a pretty conceit having no real value, a serious assault upon our national sovereignty.
Its argument seemed to me full of copybook maxims, easier recited than applied.