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Elihu Root

"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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"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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Akiroq Brost

"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."

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"Women may fall when there's no strength in men."

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"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."

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"If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor."

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"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."

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"There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men."

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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."

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"But men are men; the best sometimes forget."

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"Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets."

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Elihu Root
"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."

Circumstance

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Elihu Root
"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."

Men

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Elihu Root
"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."

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Elihu Root
"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."

War

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Elihu Root
"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."

Government

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Elihu Root
"To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism."

War

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Elihu Root
"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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Elihu Root
"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."

Rights

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Elihu Root
"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."

Men

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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."

Men

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