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Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson 
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
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics
do not know what religion is.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I was losing interest in politics,
when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.
What I have done since then is pretty well known.
- Abraham Lincoln
Politics are very much like war.
We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk
about women who are active in politics,
whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
- John F. Kennedy
I am never going to have anything more to do
with politics or politicians.
When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely
to writing and painting.
- Winston Churchill
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
- Winston Churchill
In war, you can only be killed once,
but in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
- John F. Kennedy
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen
who would protect the rights and privileges of free people
and who would preserve what is
good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
- Albert Einstein
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone
I love not to mix with it.
- Thomas Jefferson
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up
in our politics and say definite things which mean something,
or whether we shall always go on using generalities
to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
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If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
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 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.
The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do you ever question why our educational system
teaches competition rather than cooperation?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
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
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
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
We must be free not because we claim freedom,
but because we practice it.
- William Faulkner
"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace cannot be achieved through violence,
it can only be attained through understanding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 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
We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,
do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom
and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- Albert Camus
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
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
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
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)
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery
as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.
All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,
the more they are frightened.
- George S. Patton
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
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