Individual Citizens Quotes by Elihu Root

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Elihu Root has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and…
• Men do not fail; they give up trying.
• When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and…
• The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.
• It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a…
• The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second thought, and…
• About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.
• Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such…
• There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points…
• Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of…
• Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is…
• Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

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