Quotes Elihu Root

At the same time, freedom of trade regardless of political c...

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend u...

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would...

Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to...

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their ...

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of ...

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it i...

In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional ag...

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments strain...

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gai...

Love of fighting was bred in the blood of the race because t...

Men do not fail; they give up trying....

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ...

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting me...

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than ...

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than ...

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Li...

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man...

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for i...

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the...

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the...

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization...

The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange co...

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing pe...

The old system of exploitation of colonies and the monopoliz...