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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

- Albert Einstein

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

- Anatole France

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. ... Only reverence can restrain violence -- reverence for human life and the environment.

- William Sloan Coffin, Jr.

We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively, sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.

- Buckminster Fuller

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

- Martin Luther

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children.

- David Bower

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

- Albert Camus

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

- Susan B. Anthony

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize...the moral and spiritual potentialities...which we usually reserve for war.

- John Foster Dulles

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

- Andre Gide

If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

- John F. Kennedy

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

- Martin Luther

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

- Mark Twain