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In the councils of government,
we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power
exists and will persist.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,
whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
The potential for the disastrous rise
of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination
endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
We should take nothing for granted.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address of January, 17 1961
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
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If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing is more important in our national life
than the welfare of our children.
- Harry S. Truman (when signing the National School Lunch Act in 1946)
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
How far you can go without destroying from within
what you are trying to defend from without?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
Peace is its own reward.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It isn't enough to talk about peace.
One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Moral authority is never retained by
any attempt to hold on to it.
It comes without seeking and
is retained without effort.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world
that we must love our enemies - or else?
The chain reaction of evil -
hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -
must be broken, or else we shall be plunged
into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
Speeches that are measured by the hour
will die with the hour.
- Thomas Jefferson
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet.
We all breathe the same air.
We all cherish our children's future.
And we are all mortal.
- John F. Kennedy
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who won our independence...
valued liberty as an end and as a means.
They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness
and courage to be the secret of liberty.
- Louis D. Brandeis
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
I used to tell my husband that,
if he could make me "understand" something,
it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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