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I like to believe that people in the long run
are going to do more to promote peace than our governments.
Indeed, I think that people want peace so much
that one of these days, governments had better
get out of the way and let them have it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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.
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
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Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore 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
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
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- 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
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
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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 world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
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
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
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
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
"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
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
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.
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
The moral arc of the universe
bends at the elbow of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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)
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
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
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.
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
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned.
When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Whenever the people are well-informed,
they can be trusted with their own government.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
The people will save their government,
if the government itself will allow them.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen
The second office in the government is honorable and easy;
the first is but a splendid misery.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
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)
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
That government is the strongest
of which every man feels himself a part.
- Thomas Jefferson
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