#ions

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. ↗

— Elihu Root

#coming #conduct #everything #everywhere #gradually

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

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. ↗

— Elihu Root

#come #control #exclude #generations #human

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

I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex. ↗

— Marina Sirtis

#character #contained #down #feel #fiction

There are millions of kids who, naturally, if we could only remember how it is - you know, you resent authority, you are impatient for change, you want to fix things up. ↗

— Thomas Foran

#change #could #fix #how #impatient

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#cost #failure #his #man #millions

In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#began #iraq #killed #more #nation

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#decades #healthier #helped #improvements #investment

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions. ↗

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

#draw #keep #learns #life #own