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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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"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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Aberjhani

"We may fight for the cause of international peace because we are very fond of fighting."

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"If we fought wars with laughter instead of bullets, you would die laughing instead of just dying."

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Aberjhani

"Hope for peace!Dream for peace!Act for peace!Live in peace!Life is for peace!"

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Aberjhani

"Focus on peace not on war.Love, live, share and care."

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"Fret not, fret not."

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"The sweetest melody that playson starry nights and wintry days,most soothing to my listening earsand calming to beleaguering fears,I call a symphony on air-the song of sweet, still silence rare."

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Aberjhani

"Let us make the earth peaceful to enjoy the joy and beauty of spring."

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"In the company of ignorance, be silent...or join the suffering."

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"Peace comes at a price, often only at the end of a hard-fought battle."

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"If you are right, no one will bother you in this world. If you do not hurt anyone in this world, or you have no intention of hurting anyone, then no one can hurt you."

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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."

Justice

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"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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"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
"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."

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Elihu Root
"Men do not fail; they give up trying."

Men

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Elihu Root
"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."

Country

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Elihu Root
"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."

Nature

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Elihu Root
"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."

War

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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."

Men

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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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