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May Quotes by Elihu Root
- When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be…
- There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way…
- Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.
- The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the…
- 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…
- 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…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. — William Shakespeare
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle