"The point of departure of the process to……" — Elihu Root
"The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics."
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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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More Acquired Quotes
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one of 524 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something…
— Franklin P. Adams
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first…
— H. Rap Brown
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Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly…
— Smedley Butler
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
— A. S. Byatt
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
— Willa Cather
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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
— Lord Chesterfield
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired…
— Kate Chopin
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Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to…
— Emile M. Cioran
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