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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
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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
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
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Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- 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
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 cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The revelation of thought takes men
out of servitude into freedom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
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
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 more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
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
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.
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
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
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
We may have all come on different ships,
but we're in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens,
you can never regain their respect and esteem.
It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time;
you can even fool some of the people all of the time;
but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
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
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation
also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
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
Kindness is the light that dissolves
all walls between souls, families, and nations.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
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
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
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
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
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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