Elihu Root Quotes

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.

I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world. One theory leads a man to pull down everybody around him in order to climb up on them to a higher place. The other leads a man to help everybody around him in order that he may go up with them.