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Which Quotes by Elihu Root
- 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…
- The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature…
- Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded…
- 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…
- 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…
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