Citas de Elihu Root

• Men do not fail; they give up trying.

  Elihu Root

  Giving Up, Failure, Men

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

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  Practice, Would Be, Half

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• 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 he is not a politician. Everyone ought to be, as Lincoln was.

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  Art, Exercise, Self

  "Men and Policies: Addresses". Book by Elihu Root, ed. Robert Bacon and James B. Scott, p. 75, "Lincoln as a Leader of Men", 1924.

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• I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world. One theory leads a man to pull down everybody around him in order to climb up on them to a higher place. The other leads a man to help everybody around him in order that he may go up with them.

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  Hombres, Orden, Dos

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• I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it.

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  Law, Jail, Understanding

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• The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.

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  Lambs, Streams

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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

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  Creer, Gente, Justicia

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Cuando un maestro del futuro venga a señalar a la juventud de América cómo pueden obtenerse las más altas recompensas del intelecto y la devoción, puede decirles, no por medio de la sutileza y la intriga; no por medio de la manipulación y la demagogia; no por medio de las artes de la popularidad; no por medio de la habilidad y el desvío en el seguimiento de la conveniencia; sino siendo firme en la devoción a los principios de la hombría y la aplicación de la moral y el coraje de la rectitud en la vida pública de nuestro país; siendo un hombre sin engaño y sin miedo, sin egoísmo, y con devoción al deber, devoción a su país.

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  Country, Teacher, Courage

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

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  May, Moral, Disarmament

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• It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.

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  Party, Atheism, Church

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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.

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  War, Long, Community

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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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.

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  Wall, Fighting, Men

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• No es infrecuente en los tiempos modernos ver a los gobiernos esforzarse al máximo para mantener la paz, y al pueblo al que representan, con entusiasmo patriótico y resentimiento por agravios reales o imaginarios, instándoles a la guerra.

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  Real, War, Patriotic

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Lo peor, lo más duro, lo más desagradable que tengas que hacer puede ser lo que más cuente, porque es la dura disciplina, y sólo ella, la que hace posible la mayor eficacia.

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  Discipline, May, Efficiency

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• 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.

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  Hombres, Mundo, Mayo

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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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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  Derechos, Gobierno, Personas

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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.

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  Ambition, Perfection, Selfishness

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.

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  Real, Civilization, Progress

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Para abordar las verdaderas causas de la guerra hay que empezar por reconocer como de primordial relevancia para la solución del problema el hecho familiar de que la civilización es una modificación parcial, incompleta y, en gran medida, superficial de la barbarie.

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  War, Civilization, Causes

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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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.

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  Real, Pasión, Ser

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• 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.

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  Sadness, Thoughtful, Men

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• El crecimiento del gobierno constitucional moderno exige para su práctica exitosa el ejercicio de la razón y el juicio considerado por parte de los ciudadanos individuales que constituyen el electorado.

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  Exercise, Successful, Practice

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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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.

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  War, Wish, Facts

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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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.

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  Law, Natural Justice, May

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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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.

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  Country, Desire, Territory

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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