Elihu Root ,quotes

The methods of peace propagand...

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable.

Elihu Root 30.11.2012 05:12:06 84 quotes

The growth of modern constitut...

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise.

Elihu Root 30.11.2012 05:11:44 84 quotes

The attractive idea that we ca...

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity.

Elihu Root 30.11.2012 05:11:26 84 quotes

I observe that there are two e...

I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world. One theory leads a man to pull down everybody around him in order to climb up on them to a higher place. The other leads a man to help everybody around him in order that he may go up with them.

Elihu Root 30.11.2012 05:08:47 84 quotes

There is so much of good in hu...

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

Elihu Root 30.11.2012 05:08:06 84 quotes

The wolf always charges the la...

The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.

Elihu Root 30.11.2012 05:07:59 84 quotes

The point of departure of the ...

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.

Elihu Root 30.11.2012 05:07:42 84 quotes

The line of least resistance i...

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.

Elihu Root 30.11.2012 05:07:21 84 quotes

The law of the survival of the...

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.

Elihu Root 30.11.2012 05:07:10 84 quotes

Secretary of War Stanton used ...

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

Elihu Root 30.11.2012 05:06:51 84 quotes

Prejudice and passion and susp...

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.

Elihu Root 30.11.2012 05:06:45 84 quotes

Nobody knows through how many ...

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

Elihu Root 30.11.2012 05:06:32 84 quotes

No nation now sets forth to de...

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.

Elihu Root 30.11.2012 05:06:26 84 quotes

The other leads a man to help ...

The other leads a man to help everybody around him in order that he may go up with them.

Elihu Root 30.11.2012 05:06:16 84 quotes

One theory leads a man to pull...

One theory leads a man to pull down everybody around him in order to climb up on them to a higher place.

Elihu Root 30.11.2012 05:06:10 84 quotes

I observe that there are two e...

I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world.

Elihu Root 30.11.2012 05:06:04 84 quotes

The worst, the hardest, the mo...

The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency

Elihu Root 30.11.2012 05:05:54 84 quotes

In the first place, when there...

In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.

Elihu Root 30.11.2012 05:05:21 84 quotes

Human life is held in much hig...

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

Elihu Root 30.11.2012 05:05:09 84 quotes

Gradually, everything that hap...

Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations.

Elihu Root 30.11.2012 05:03:14 84 quotes

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