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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
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.
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
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
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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.
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
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
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
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
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.
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
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
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
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
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 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
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation
also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
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.
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
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 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
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
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
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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