Elihu Root Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american lawyer Elihu Root on topics like patience, confusion, result

  • 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.

    — Elihu Root on politics
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  • Men do not fail; they give up trying.

    — Elihu Root on failure
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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 on lincoln
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  • About Elihu Root

    Name Elihu Root
    Quotes 3 quotations
    Nationality American
    Profession Lawyer
    Birthday October 16
    Top topics patience, confusion, result, accepted, peaceably

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