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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."

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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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Donna Grant

"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

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Donna Grant

"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."

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Donna Grant

"We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it."

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Donna Grant

"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

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Donna Grant

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

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Donna Grant

"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

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Donna Grant

"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."

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Donna Grant

"There shall be no end to the government of God."

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Donna Grant

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

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Donna Grant

"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."

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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."

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"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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