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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers
of the society but the people themselves;
and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise
their control with a wholesome discretion,
the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Every government degenerates when trusted
to the rulers of the people alone.
The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
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
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
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.
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
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
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 cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
We may have all come on different ships,
but we're in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
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
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
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.
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
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.
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
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation
also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
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
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
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
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
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only way to deal with an unfree world
is to become so absolutely free
that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
- Albert Camus
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
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