You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

The remark argues that genuine peace is incompatible with mass militarization. Lloyd George frames armaments not as a safeguard but as an obstacle: when societies are organized around weapons and standing armies, fear and readiness for war become the default political condition. The metaphor of a “chariot of peace” suggests peace is an active project that must move forward, yet it cannot travel on a path strewn with artillery—meaning diplomacy and reconciliation are continually derailed by the material presence of force and the interests invested in it. The line thus functions as a critique of arms races and a plea for disarmament as a precondition for stable international order.