In fact, all aristocracies grew chiefly out of wars, and perhaps they are better for wars than a real democracy.

Here, you see, you run into one of those contradictions in life and history which make the world so hard to change....
You know there are some reasons why peace, whenever it may come, will bring problems as bad as the problems of the war itself.

I can think of no worse task than the long conferences of the Allies with their conflicting interests and ambitions.

Then must come their conferences with the enemy.

Then there are sure to be other conferences to try to make peace secure.