"Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous……" — Elihu Root
"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 rights."
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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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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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Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a…
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Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He…
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Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.
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No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to…
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For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the…
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Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one…
— Unknown Author
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The ultimate success of this government and the stability of its institutions, its progress in all that can make a…
— Jon Lord
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What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.
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By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it…
— J. William Fulbright
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I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because…
— Fred Melamed
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It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. Were this…
— Lucretia Mott
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There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single…
— Clayton Christensen
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