Quotes

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation or creed

Bertrand Russell (attrib)

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men

Lyndon B. Johnson

In Germany, the Nazis came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Jews and I didn't speak up because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn't speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I was a Protestant so I didn't speak up. Then they came for me...By that time there was no one to speak up for anyone

Martin Niemöller

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed

Constitution of UNESCO

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance

John Philpot Curran

All those who are not racially pure are mere chaff

Adolf Hitler

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist

Edmund Burke

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all

Aristotle

Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism

Earl Warren

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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