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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
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
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If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
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.
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
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
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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)
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
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
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
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
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
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
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.
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
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
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
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
The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
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
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation
also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations;
entangling alliances with none.
- Thomas Jefferson
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
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
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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