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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
We will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
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 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
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
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
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
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
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
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
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 more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
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
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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 moral arc of the universe
bends at the elbow of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
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
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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)
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
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
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.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
We may have all come on different ships,
but we're in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Bill of Rights is what the people are
entitled to against every government,
and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
- Thomas Jefferson
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
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.
The second office in the government is honorable and easy;
the first is but a splendid misery.
- Thomas Jefferson
Loyalty to country ALWAYS.
Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
- Mark Twain
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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