Elihu Root
<p class="default"><span style=" font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000;">Elihu Root, who'd been Theodore Roosevelt's secretary of state, said in 1917: "To be safe, democracy must kill its enemy when it can and where it can. The world. . . must be all democratic or all Prussian." </span></p>
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<p class="default"><span style=" font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000;">and on the same day, in the NY TImes: </span></p>
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<p class="default"><span style=" font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000;">on Jan. 17, 1907, The Washington Post reported that at a banquet in D.C. honoring Secretary of State Elihu Root, President Theodore Roosevelt said that once in office, a public official - whatever party he belonged to- "must feel that he is the servant of the people. This is true of all public officials, but perhaps it is in a special sense true of the secretary of state, for our party lines stop at the water's edge." </span></p>
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<p class="default"><span style=" font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; color: #000000;">weird </span></p>