Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
There is, in addition to a courage with which men die, a courage by which men must live.
Do not pray for easy lives. pray to be stronger men.
Change is the law of life.
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.
Everything changes but change itself.
Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long - range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
When written in Chinese, the word ''crisis,'' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
I'm an idealist without illusions.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on.
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
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