The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and so they… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
