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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
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Government is a contrivance
of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
People have the right to expect that these wants
will be provided for by this wisdom.
- Jimmy Carter
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
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Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
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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
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
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
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
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
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
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
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
Peace is its own reward.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
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
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
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
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)
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
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.
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.
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
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
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
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 buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
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
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
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
Is freedom anything else than the right
to live as we wish? Nothing else.
- Epictetus
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 world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men
is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions
such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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