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Elihu Root

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."

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Donna Grant

"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."

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Donna Grant

"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."

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Donna Grant

"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."

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Donna Grant

"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"Poor men's reasons are not heard."

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Donna Grant

"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."

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Donna Grant

"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."

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Donna Grant

"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."

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Elihu Root
"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."

Government

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Elihu Root
"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."

Nature

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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."

Policy

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Elihu Root
"No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils."

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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
"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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Elihu Root
"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."

Men

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Elihu Root
"Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice."

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Elihu Root
"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."

Men

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Elihu Root
"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."

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