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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Governments.
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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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
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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- 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
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
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
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
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.
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
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.
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Peace is its own reward.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
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
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- 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
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
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.
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
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
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
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
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
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
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
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
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
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
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding
and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
If you plan for a year, plant a seed.
If for ten years, plant a tree.
If for a hundred years, teach the people.
When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest.
When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests.
- Kuan Chung
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
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
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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