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I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
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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
I was losing interest in politics,
when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.
What I have done since then is pretty well known.
- Abraham Lincoln
In war, you can only be killed once,
but in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill
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Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone
I love not to mix with it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Politics are very much like war.
We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
- Albert Einstein
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
- John F. Kennedy
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
- Winston Churchill
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk
about women who are active in politics,
whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
- John F. Kennedy
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics
do not know what religion is.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I am never going to have anything more to do
with politics or politicians.
When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely
to writing and painting.
- Winston Churchill
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up
in our politics and say definite things which mean something,
or whether we shall always go on using generalities
to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen
who would protect the rights and privileges of free people
and who would preserve what is
good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
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.
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When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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)
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 become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
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
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
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
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
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.
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
We may have all come on different ships,
but we're in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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.
Don't talk about what you have done
or what you are going to do.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
- 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
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 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
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
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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