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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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Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro 
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
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)
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
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
We are not afraid to follow truth
wherever it may lead,
nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Well, I don't know what will happen now.
We've got some difficult days ahead.
But it doesn't matter with me now.
Because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind. Like any man,
I would like to live a long life.
Longevity has its place.
But I'm not concerned about that now.
I just want to do God's will.
And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain.
And I've looked over.
And I've seen the promised land.
I may not get there with you.
But I want you to know tonight, that we,
as a people, will get to the promised land.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
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
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy
We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
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
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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.
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
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
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom,
no longer lend your strength to that
which you wish to be free from.
Fill your life with love and bravery,
and you shall live a life uncommon.
- Jewel
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)
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
Peace is its own reward.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
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
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
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
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