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Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

~Elihu Root

Topics: Esteem Held Higher Human Human Life Judicial Life Looked More Much Private Procedure Quarrel Seriously Taking Than Whether

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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.

~Elihu Root

Topics: Ambition Come Control Exclude Generations Human Human Nature Injustice Many Much Must Nature Nearer Now Perfection Prejudice Selfishness Than Will

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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.

~Elihu Root

Topics: Aggression Always Another Country Desire First First Place Get Inspired Intentional Place Policy Possession Pretext Right Sought Territory Trade Wrong

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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.

~Elihu Root

Topics: Enthusiasm Every Fancied Forward Governments Keep Modern Nerve Over Patriotic Peace People Real Represent Resentment See Them Times Uncommon Urging War Whom Wrongs

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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.

~Elihu Root

Topics: Become Case Community Conduct Continue Every Form Gain General Habit Habits Helps Long Observed Peace Standards War

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

~Elihu Root

Topics: Another Desires Forth Ground Nation Now Sets Spoils

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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.

~Elihu Root

Topics: Fighting Gone How Knows Made Many Men Nobody Place Themselves Thousands Thousands Of Years Through Wall Weak While Years

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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.

~Elihu Root

Topics: Against Among Conception Constitutional Duties Government Great Important Just Living Mass More Nation Nothing Others Owes Peace People Preservation Rights Secure Than Which

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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.

~Elihu Root

Topics: Adherence Dangerous Differences More Most Opinion Passion Prejudice Real Regarding Rights Self-Interest Stubborn Suspicion Than

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The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

~Elihu Root

Topics: Attractive Authority Conduct Conformity Control Counsel Enforce Force Idea International Legislation Man National Nations Now Parliament Perfection Police Police Force Power Right Rules

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Lawyer

Born: February 15th, 1845

Died: February 7th, 1937

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