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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day,
he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer.
But if he spends his days as a speculator,
shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time,
he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
- Henry David Thoreau
A wise and frugal government,
which shall leave men free to regulate
their own pursuits of industry and improvement,
and shall not take from the mouth
of labor and the bread it has earned -
this is the sum of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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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.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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.
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.
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.
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
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)
Without forgiveness, there is no future.
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
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
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
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
Peace is its own reward.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation
also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
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
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
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 pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
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
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.
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
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
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 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.
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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.
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
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
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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