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Every government degenerates when trusted
to the rulers of the people alone.
The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
- Thomas Jefferson
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I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- 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)
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
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
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
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- 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 cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- 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
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
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.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- 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.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
The moral arc of the universe
bends at the elbow of justice.
- 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)
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
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 care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction,
is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Experience hath shown, that even
under the best forms of government,
those entrusted with power have,
in time, and by slow operations,
perverted it into tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
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
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
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
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
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
The spirit of resistance to government
is so valuable on certain occasions
that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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.
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
No government ought to be without censors;
and where the press is free no one ever will.
- Thomas Jefferson
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends,
and mar the purest joys and happiness
God has granted us in this world,
to fill our hearts with hatred
instead of love for our neighbors,
and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world!
- Robert E. Lee
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
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