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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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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
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
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
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- 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
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
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned.
When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
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
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
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
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
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
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
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.
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
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
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
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
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
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
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
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.
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
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.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
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
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation
also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
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
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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