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May you find great value in these Political quotes and sayings.
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
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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.
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
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)
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
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 farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
War settles nothing.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- 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
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell
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 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 is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- 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.
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 supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
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
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
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation
also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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 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 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 the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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.
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
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
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
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 small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
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
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
We will not learn how to live together in peace
by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow
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
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
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