Elihu Root Quotes

There is no greater responsibility resting upon peoples and governments everywhere than to make sure that enduring peace will this time - at long last - be established and maintained.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

The supreme need of the world is peace and good will among men. It must be peace founded upon justice and fairness, the righting of past wrong, and the securing of the future as far as possible against the evils of the past.

The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.

America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.

No country can be expected to make peace with a nation that denies its right to exist.

To Perpetual Peace

Peace at home. Peace in the world.

In this age there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war. We must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization.

The cause of world peace is much more important than any individual.

We are not seeking... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.

War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.

We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Once established with Great Britain, it would not be difficult, with moderation and prudence, to establish permanent peace with the rest of the world, when our most sanguine hopes of prosperity may be realized.

To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his race, religious beliefs, or philosophy, is capable of reason.

Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.