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Addresses on International Subjects

Book by Elihu Root · 25 quotes · Men, War, Humans

This book compiles addresses and lectures that discuss a range of international subjects, offering insights and perspectives on global issues.

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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.”

Men World Happens Nations Interest Sadness Judgment Sitting Men And Women Thoughtful Everything Happens For A Reason

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“The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.”

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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.”

Long War Helping Form Community Cases Habit Standards Gains

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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.”

Humans Generations Human Nature Ambition Perfection Prejudice Injustice Selfishness

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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.”

Men World Way Humans May Grows Human Nature Strive Another Way Acquaintance

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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.”

Real Self Passion Interest Differences Opinion Rights Dangerous Prejudice Suspicion Stubborn Self Interest Adherence Differences Of Opinion Incitement

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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.”

Humans Life Is Chance Higher Esteem Human Life Quarrels Take A Chance Procedures Judicial

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

People Believe Causes Justice Support Honest Injustice Honest People

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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.”

People War Real Government Modern Enthusiasm Patriotic Nerves Resentment Uncommon Modern Times

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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.”

Men War Law He Man Survival Survival Of The Fittest

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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.”

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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.”

Humans War States Facts Wish Process Natural Results Human Nature Reactions Characteristics Fierce Savages Departure

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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.”

Men Wells Animal Century Cruelty Wicked Shock Sensibility Aggravation Unnoticed Degrading

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

Nations Justice Discussion Willingness Theoretical Diplomatic Rehabilitation

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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.”

Humans Feelings Seems Action Fall Causes Creating Spring Argument Aim Method Doctrine Propaganda Reaching Human Actions

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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.”

Firsts Country Desire Policy Trade Inspired Possession Territory Aggression Pretext

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“The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.”

People Reason Faith Fall Common Argument Mark Mere Favors Convincing Interchange Assemblage

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“The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.”

Reason Government Individual Growth Practice Successful Modern Citizens Exercise Judgment Considerate Electorate Be Considerate Constitutional Government Considerate And Caring

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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.”

War Facts Problem Causes Deals Civilization Solutions Familiar Prime Superficial Recognizing Incomplete Barbarism Modification Causes Of War

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

Desire Nations Spoil

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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.”

Knows Men Years Made Fighting Gone Wall Weak Nobody Knows

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

War Social Conditions Mankind Originals Social Conditions

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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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“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.”

Men War Facts Lying Force Sides Products Originals Limitation Appeals Civilized Savages Promoting Proceeding Promoting Peace

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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.”

World Real Force Lines Opinion Progress Civilization Resistance Public Opinion Theoretical

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