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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 
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
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Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
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.
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
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Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
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 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
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
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.
We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
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.
Competition has been shown to be useful
up to a certain point and no further,
but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today,
begins where competition leaves off.
- Franklin D. 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
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life
in which chance has placed us,
but is always the result of a good conscience,
good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet.
We all breathe the same air.
We all cherish our children's future.
And we are all mortal.
- John F. Kennedy
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 revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
I am not bound to succeed,
but I am bound to live by the light that I have.
I must stand with anybody that stands right,
and stand with him while he is right,
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
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)
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
Peace is its own reward.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
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.
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
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
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we dig deep in our history and remember
that we are not descended from fearful men,
not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
- Edward R. Murrow
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world
that we must love our enemies - or else?
The chain reaction of evil -
hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -
must be broken, or else we shall be plunged
into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation
also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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