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Elihu Root quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

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

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

Elihu Root quotes: The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.

The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.

Elihu Root quotes: It is only through the power of association that those of any calling exercise due influence in their communities.

It is only through the power of association that those of any calling exercise due influence in their communities.

Elihu Root quotes: War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.

War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.

Elihu Root quotes: 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.

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 quotes: About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.

About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.

Elihu Root quotes: Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.

Moral disarmament is to safeguard the future; material disarmament is to save for the present, that there may be a future to safeguard.

Elihu Root quotes: Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

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

Men do not fail; they give up trying.