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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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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
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace is its own reward.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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.
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
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
We may have all come on different ships,
but we're in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
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
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A leader is best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little,
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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
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
We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
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 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
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
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.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
- John F. Kennedy
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
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