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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. ↗

— Elihu Root

#compels #considerate #constitute #constitutional #constitutional government

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. ↗

— Elihu Root

#case #circumstances #claims #depend #disputed

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. ↗

— Elihu Root

#always #another #country #desire #first

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. ↗

— Elihu Root

#among #conception #constitutional #constitutional government #duties

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. ↗

— Elihu Root

#authority #conduct #conformity #control #counsel

Keep burning the flame of discontent within you until you get the joy of satisfaction. ↗

— Ghumakkad Agantuk Ram

#philosophy-of-life #realistic #life

Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed. ↗

— Robert Runcie

#been #centuries #christian #fervently #hatred

I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#assume #attitude #australia #because #been

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#conviction #emotional #favour #finds #grounds

With a theatre audience there's always the additional sense of a sustained challenge of which I'm acutely aware and for which you need to have the tools ready - your voice, physicality, brain. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#additional #always #audience #aware #brain