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No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. - Elihu Root
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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. - Elihu Root
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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. - Elihu Root
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The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics. - Elihu Root
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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. - Elihu Root
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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
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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. - Elihu Root
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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. - Elihu Root
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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. - Elihu Root
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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. - Elihu Root
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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
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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. - Elihu Root
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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
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The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream. - Elihu Root
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Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice. - Elihu Root
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Men do not fail; they give up trying. - Elihu Root
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