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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
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Government is a contrivance
of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
People have the right to expect that these wants
will be provided for by this wisdom.
- Jimmy Carter
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
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
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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)
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
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
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
DON'T get officious.
You're not yourself when you're officious -
That is the curse of a government job.
- the movie Harold and Maude (1971)
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson
I object to violence because
when it appears to do good,
the good is only temporary;
the evil it does is permanent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile,
one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
We are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation
also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
Peace is its own reward.
- 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
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
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun 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.
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
We may have all come on different ships,
but we're in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The moral arc of the universe
bends at the elbow of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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