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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
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
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- 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
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
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
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
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
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
We Can Do It!
- WW II US Government Poster
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- 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
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 must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
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
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
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.
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
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
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
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
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation
also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
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 choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
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
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
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
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
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
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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