"The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying…" — Elihu Root
"The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream."
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38 Quotes by Elihu Root
Elihu Root has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful…
- Men do not fail; they give up trying.
- When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of…
- It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to…
- The framers of the Constitution realized that . . . there needed to be some guardian of the sober second…
- About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut…
- Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude…
- There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and…
- Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real…
- Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial…
- Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.
- Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a…