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Elihu Root Is Born On February 15, 1845
Elihu Root Zodiac Sign Is Aquarius
Elihu Root Zodiac Symbol Is Water Bearer
Elihu Root Chinese Zodiac Element Is Yin Wood
Elihu Root Chinese Zodiac Animal Is Snake
Elihu Root Occupation Is Lawyer
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At the same time, freedom of trade regardless of political control is diminishing the comparative value of extension of territory. - Elihu Root Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice. - Elihu Root Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
Love of fighting was bred in the blood of the race because those who did not love fighting were not suited to their environment and perished. - Elihu Root Quotes
Men do not fail; they give up trying. - Elihu Root Quotes
No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. - Elihu Root Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
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 to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection. - Elihu Root Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
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 mans original savage nature. - Elihu Root Quotes
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the worlds public opinion. - Elihu Root Quotes
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 Quotes
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify. - Elihu Root Quotes
The old system of exploitation of colonies and the monopolization of their trade for the benefit of the mother country has practically disappeared. - Elihu Root Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice. - Elihu Root Quotes
The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream. - Elihu Root Quotes
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 Quotes
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