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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
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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)
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
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
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
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
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A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
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
We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,
do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom
and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
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
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
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
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
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
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
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.
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)
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
The moral arc of the universe
bends at the elbow of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those
to whom they entrust the minds of their children
a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No government ought to be without censors;
and where the press is free no one ever will.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is error alone which needs the support of government.
Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation
also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
That government is the strongest
of which every man feels himself a part.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel
Government of the people,
by the people,
for the people,
shall not perish from this Earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
Peace is its own reward.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Conquest is not in our principles.
It is inconsistent with our government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
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