Desire Quote by Elihu Root Download Open image “No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.” — Elihu Root ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Spoil
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every nation determines its own destiny; the clever the nation, the better the fate! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too… — Morris Sheppard Copy Share Image
“Nation after nation, when at the zenith of its power, has proclaimed itself invincible because its army could shake the earth with its tread… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss… — Theodore Roosevelt 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
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image