"I guess you will have to go to……" — Elihu Root
"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 there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it."
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Elihu Root
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38 Quotes by Elihu Root
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Men do not fail; they give up trying.
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When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of…
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The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.
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It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to…
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The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second…
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About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut…
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Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude…
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There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and…
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Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real…
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Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial…
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Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.
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