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We felt that although they were patchy, there was a tremendous political energy in the Henry plays. Edward Hall

Political Energy Tremendous Although Felt Were Henry Plays

Come here immediately and see if you can find the murderer of the President. Edwin M. Stanton

You President Immediately Find See Come Here

All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death. Edwin M. Stanton

Death Will Before Military President Trial Punishment Shall Concealment Subject Escape Commission Persons Treated

The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing. Edwin M. Stanton

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

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

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

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

Every trial lawyer knows what it is like to sit patiently while the other side puts on its case. Inevitably they make a few points that appeal to the jury, and waiting for the opportunity to respond can be painful. The desire to jump up immediately - to point out the flaws in logic or the factual distortions - is often overpowering. Eliot Spitzer

Waiting Opportunity Lawyer Sit Few Every Other Side Trial Trial Lawyer Immediately Respond Out Logic Case Point Points Factual Puts Like Make Knows Inevitably Overpowering Up Jump Often Jury Patiently While Flaws Painful Appeal Desire

I don't like politicians who vacillate. Eliot Spitzer

Politicians Like Who

When you're in office, there are tangible moments when you can see tangible successes. Eliot Spitzer

You See Tangible Office Successes Moments

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better. Eliot Spitzer

Family Obligations Better First Sense Way Promised Wrong Most Importantly Any Public Apologize Acted Whom Right Right And Wrong Violates

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again. Eliot Spitzer

Parenting Financial Behavior Reward First Own Rules Out Bad Moral Bad Behavior Misfortune Hazard Had Bailout Make Because Said Same Bank Banks Again Created Incentive Acts Differently Loans

In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement. Eliot Spitzer

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