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.More Elihu Root quotes [11/30/2012 05:11:42]

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.More Elihu Root quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians.More Elihu Root quotes [11/30/2012 05:11:16]

Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study it, and learn the art, and exercise patience and sympathy and skill to bring the multitude of opinions and wishes of self-governing people into such order that some prevailing opinion may be expressed and peaceably accepted. Otherwise, confusion will result either in dictatorship or anarchy. The principal ground of reproach against any American citizen should be that heMore Elihu Root quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

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.More Elihu Root quotes [11/30/2012 05:11:10]