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Elihu Root
Elihu Root
American Lawyer
Born: Feb 15, 1845
Died: Feb 7, 1937
Justice Men Nature Peace People War
Related authors: Asa Hutchinson Clarence Darrow James Carville Judy Sheindlin Kamala Harris Ralph Nader Robert Green Ingersoll William Jennings Bryan
The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything. Elihu Root
Country Own Orator Politicians Other Other Countries Everything Extreme Statements Claims Seek Tendency Wrong Countries Most Listen Declaring Who Popular Popularity Right
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
Good Nature Peace World Better Men Human Nature Other Way Strive Promote Points Like Another Another Way May Human Which Acquaintance Much Each Grow
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
Rights Dangerous Passion Differences Adherence More Stubborn Most Opinion Self-Interest Real Than Suspicion Regarding Prejudice
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
War Time Patience Men Ought Secretary Out He Because Lincoln Get Shot Used Who
Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading. Elihu Root
Men Animals Cruelty Wicked Unnoticed Would Degrading Well Passed Shocks Regarded Sensibilities Which Century Lower Now
Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice. Elihu Root
Justice Injustice People Cause Support Mistakenly Led Believing Honest Honest People
Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts. Elihu Root
Justice Obligations Natural Law Depend Sense Rules Circumstances Claims Case Insistence Facts Particular May International International Law Disputed Right Applied Treaty
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
Life Seriously More Higher Taking Looked Judicial Quarrel Private Than Human Procedure Esteem Whether Much Held Human Life
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice. Elihu Root
Nature Injustice Will Ambition Control Human Nature Must Perfection Generations Exclude Come Selfishness Than Human Much Prejudice Many Now Nearer
It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war. Elihu Root
War Peace People Enthusiasm Every Nerve See Uncommon Over Wrongs Real Governments Times Modern Represent Patriotic Modern Times Fancied Them Urging Forward Resentment Keep Whom
It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct. Elihu Root
War Peace Long Become Community Every Case General Habit Habits Observed Continue Conduct Form Gain Standards Helps
No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. Elihu Root
Nation Sets Spoils Another Forth Ground Avowed Now Desires
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. Elihu Root
Government Great Peace Rights People Important Nation Owes Nothing Living Others Secure Constitutional Constitutional Government More Mass Conception Than Duties Just Which Against Among Preservation
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. Elihu Root
Government Practice Judgment Considerate Citizens Constitute Constitutional Constitutional Government Individual Exercise Modern Successful Electorate Reason Who Growth Compels
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature. Elihu Root
Savage War Nature Man Peace Side Consists Lies Promoting Civilized Fact Forces Limitation Mode While Product Appeal Original
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
World Progress Increasing Civilization Force Make Opinion Least Real Continually Line Public Theoretical Public Opinion Resistance
The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark. Elihu Root
Faith Peace People Argument Fall Mark Favor General Mere Short Common Interchange Loving Public Convincing Reasons Assemblage

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