"Politics is the practical exercise of the art……" — Elihu Root
"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 it, and learn the art, and exercise patience and sympathy and skill to bring the multitude of opinions and wishes of self-governing people into such order that some prevailing opinion may be expressed and peaceably accepted. Otherwise, confusion will result either in dictatorship or anarchy. The principal ground of reproach against any American citizen should be that he is not a politician. Everyone ought to be, as Lincoln was."
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Elihu Root
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38 Quotes by Elihu Root
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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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