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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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What has happened at Guantanamo Bay...
does not represent the will of the American people.
I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong.
I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse
to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.
- Jimmy Carter
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)
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I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
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
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
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
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
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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 more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
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
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
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
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
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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)
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
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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.
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
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
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
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 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.
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
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
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.
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
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
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.
We are all "neighbors."
Our world has gotten too small for us to be anything else.
We can no longer have "us" and "them" - friends and enemies.
A person from Iraq, or Russia, or Columbia is
no more a stranger or enemy than a person from across town.
A few people everywhere are troublemakers.
Every religion provokes a few people to become extremists.
Do we need police around the globe? Unfortunately, we always will.
Do we need war? Does that question even deserve an answer?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation
will be the philosophy of government in the next.
- Abraham Lincoln
That government is the strongest
of which every man feels himself a part.
- Thomas Jefferson
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Speeches that are measured by the hour
will die with the hour.
- Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
It is error alone which needs the support of government.
Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson
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