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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
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
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.
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
Speeches that are measured by the hour
will die with the hour.
- 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 best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations;
entangling alliances with none.
- Thomas Jefferson
"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
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
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
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
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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
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
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation
also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
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 conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry
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
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The worst government is often the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane.
But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken
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
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain
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 wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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