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Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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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)
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
- Abraham Lincoln
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We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- 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
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
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
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
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
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
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend or co-worker shares a political,
religious, economic, or social opinion
that is opposite to yours -
does that drive a wedge between your hearts?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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 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
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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.
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- 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
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
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The moral arc of the universe
bends at the elbow of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- 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
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The very ink with which all history
is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
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
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
But what a cruel thing is war
to separate and destroy families and friends.
- Robert E. Lee
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
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.
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
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will
legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
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
You can put wings on a pig,
but you don't make it an eagle.
- William J. Clinton
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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 best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
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