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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers
of the society but the people themselves;
and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise
their control with a wholesome discretion,
the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
- Thomas Jefferson
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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
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)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
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
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
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
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 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
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- 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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
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
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
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
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
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The moral arc of the universe
bends at the elbow of justice.
- 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
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)
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
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
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
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers
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
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
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
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
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.
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
The spirit of resistance to government
is so valuable on certain occasions
that I wish it to be always kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
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
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
We are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to
criticize or attack the government of my own country.
I make up for lost time when I come home.
- Winston Churchill
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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