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 …

- Elihu Root

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

- Elihu Root

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

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 sep…

- Elihu Root

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 ent…

- Elihu Root

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 civiliz…

- Elihu Root

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the wo…

- Elihu Root

The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and…

- Elihu Root

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