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Elihu Root

"The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice."

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"The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice."

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"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."

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"What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality."

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"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."

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"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."

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"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"

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"If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."

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"Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well."

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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice."
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"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."
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