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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
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)
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
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We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- 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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
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
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
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
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
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
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
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
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
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
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
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
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
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- 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)
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
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
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
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
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
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
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
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal
is our only legitimate hope of survival.
- Wendell Berry
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
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.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation
also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Were it left to me to decide whether we should
have a government without newspapers,
or newspapers without a government,
I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
- Thomas Jefferson
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