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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
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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I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
"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
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- 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
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
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
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
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- 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
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
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 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
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
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
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- 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
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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 very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
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.
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
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
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
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.
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
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
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government
results from too much government.
- Thomas Jefferson
The second office in the government is honorable and easy;
the first is but a splendid misery.
- Thomas Jefferson
Conquest is not in our principles.
It is inconsistent with our government.
- Thomas Jefferson
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Government of the people,
by the people,
for the people,
shall not perish from this Earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
I predict future happiness for Americans
if they can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people
under the pretense of taking care of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
Whenever the people are well-informed,
they can be trusted with their own government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
So confident am I in the intentions,
as well as wisdom, of the government,
that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done,
either cannot, or ought not to be done.
- Thomas Jefferson
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
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
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction,
is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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