"Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material……" — Elihu Root
"Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard."
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Elihu Root
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38 Quotes by Elihu Root
Elihu Root has 38 quotes on this site.
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Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful…
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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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In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The…
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