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• As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.

  Benjamin Rush

  Time, Peace, War

  Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

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• Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free development of the talents of all men, we shall not be in want of the means to approach such a state.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Mean, Men

  "Ideas And Opinions". Book by Albert Einstein, 1954.

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• The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.

  Bernard Crick

  Political, Together, Politics

  Bernard Crick (2013). “In Defence of Politics”, p.97, A&C Black

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• So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions. Those who contribute most to this kind of association are for that very reason entitled to a larger share in the state than those who, though they may be equal or even superior in free birth and in family, are inferior in the virtue that belongs to a citizen. Similarly they are entitled to a larger share than those who are superior in riches but inferior in virtue.

  Aristotle

  Together, Purpose, Noble

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• A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

  Aristotle

  Exercise, Association, Employment

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• This might explain why Obama gave billions to Wall Street crooks, and dragged the Iraq and Afghan wars on and on.
  Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing... We have ceased to be a nation under law but instead a homeland where the withered Bill of Rights, like a dead trumpet vine, clings to our pseudo-Roman columns.

  Gore Vidal

  Wall, War, Rights

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• The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors, manufacturers) who are responsible for the death, mutilation or general wretchedness of thousands or millions are rewarded with fame, riches and prizes... If you are going to rob, rob big; if you're going to kill, kill big.

  Philip Slater

  Politics, Our Society, Riches

  Philip Slater (2016). “The Pursuit of Loneliness: America's Discontent and the Search for a New Democratic Ideal”, p.142, Beacon Press

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• Citizens across the United States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department of Peace, seeking nothing less than the transformation of our society, to make non-violence an organizing principle, to make war archaic through creating a paradigm shift in our culture for human development, for economic and political justice and for violence control.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Creating, Justice

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• Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Law, Political

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.227, Createspace Independent Pub

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• ..the United States is subject to the scrutiny of a candid world ... what the United States does, for good or for ill, continues to be watched by the international community, in particular by organizations concerned with the advancement of the rule of law and respect for human dignity.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Respect, Law, Organization

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• We are going forward with the idea of a multicultural , a multinational state, trying to live in unity, at the same time respecting our diversity...But we need to all come together so we can live united.

  Evo Morales

  Respect, Ideas, Diversity

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• Our society is only as healthy as our most vulnerable citizens. It is unconscionable that the weakest links in our country are our hungry children. No other Western industrialized nation has widespread hunger within its borders. We really must put an end to hunger in the United States if we are to keep our prosperity and protect the future.

  Linda Gray

  Country, Children, Future

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• A universal renunciation of violence requires the commitment of the whole of society. These are not matters of government but matters of State; not only matters for the authoirities, but for society in its entirety, including civilian, military, and religious bodies. The mobilization which is urgently needed to effect the transition within two or three years from a culture of war to a culture of peace demands co-operation from everyone. In order to change, the world needs everyone.

  Federico Mayor Zaragoza

  Religious, Military, War

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• It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of America - in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Travel, Differences, America

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.619, Best Books on

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• One of the special beauties of America is that it is the only country in the world where you are not advised to learn the language before entering. Before I ever set out for the United States, I asked a friend if I should study American. His answer was unequivocal. "On no account," he said. "The more English you sound, the more likely you are to be believed."

  Quentin Crisp

  Country, Travel, America

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• The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

  James A. Baldwin

  Art, Creativity, Being Alone

  "The Creative Process" by James A. Baldwin originally published in The National Culture Center's "Creative America", 1962, and later published in James A. Baldwin "The Price of the Ticket", 1985.

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• What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

  Al Gore

  Change, Feelings, Environmental

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• All things are in a state of flux.

  Heraclitus

  Change, Organization, Flux

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• To achieve your ethereal state, you have to expand your thoughtless awareness.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• It is an embarrassment that the United States, the wealthiest nation, has people that go hungry.

  Craig T. Nelson

  People, United States, Wealth

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• The preamble to the Constitution states: "We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare..." It doesn't say "guarantee the general welfare." And it certainly doesn't say "give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV".

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, Order, Perfect

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• All beings exist in an invisible state and then come to a state of visibility. Change occurs only on the surface, for the self-existent glory remains unchanged; changing form does not affect the self-existent Reality. Atman, Soul or the Self, dwells in all that is perishable, yet it remains imperishable.

  Rama Swami

  God, Spiritual, Reality

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• Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done.

  Mike Turzai

  Winning, Pennsylvania, Done

  "Pennsylvania Republican: Voter ID Laws Are ‘Gonna Allow Governor Romney To Win’" by Annie-Rose Strasser, thinkprogress.org. June 25, 2012.

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• The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light. For these reasons, we believe it important for the President of the United States to tell the American public and the world what we think is wrong on fundamental ethical principles to initiate the development of such a weapon.

  Enrico Fermi

  Believe, Thinking, Light

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• When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga. Yoga is the state of no-mind. If you can be without the mind without doing any posture, you have become a perfect yogi. It has happened to many without doing any postures, and it has not happened to many who have been doing postures for many lives.

  Rajneesh

  Wise, Spiritual, Wisdom

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