Elihu Root Quotes

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• The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to…
• In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade…
• The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of…
• It is only through the power of association that those of any calling exercise due influence in their communities.
• 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 study…
• The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the…
• To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar…
• No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.
• It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle…
• Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the…
• War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.
• Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural…
• Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just…
• The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while…
• The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's…
• Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.
• I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you…
• The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own…

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