This election year promises to be one of the most debated (and heated)
in our history. Regardless of which party you support, there seems
to be an overwhelming feeling by voters that the politicians have their
own agenda and their own vision of Utopia. This quote by Elihu Root
seems as timely now as it was in his day:
"All my life people have been coming to me with
plans to make over society and its institutions.
Many of these plans have seemed to me good.
Some of them have been excellent. All of them
have had one fatal defect. They have assumed
that human nature would behave in a certain
way. If it would behave in that way almost any
one of these plans would work, but if human
nature would behave in that way not any of
the plans would be necessary, for in that case
society and it institutions would naturally
reform themselves to perfection."
Elihu Root
(click photo for Wikipedia link for more information on this gentleman)
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