Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)
US Author of 'How to Make Firends and Influence People.'

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Miguel Cervantes, de (1547-1617)
Spanish author of Don Quixote.

To withdraw is not to run away.

François de Chateaubriand (1768-1848)
French romantic writer.

Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it.

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)
Russian playwright.

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Philip Dormer Chesterfield (1694-1773)
English statesman, author

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Gilbert K Chesterton (1874-1936)
English author

Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.

Joan Chittister, OSB
Contemporary Benedictine nun and writer.

We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Former British Prime Minister

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE)

An unjust peace is better than an just war
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.
Laws are silent in time of war.
We are born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

Gregory Clark

Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?

Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929)
French statesman.

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.

Bill Clinton (1946-)
Remarks at the Funeral of Yitzhak Rabin, the late Prime Minister of Israel 6 November 1995.

He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can't let go to the hatred of their enemies they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves.

Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. (1924-)
US activist clergyman

A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
English poet.

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.
Language is the armoury of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)
English sportsman and writer

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

James Bryant Conant (1893-1978)
US chemist

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

Confucius (551-479 B C )
Chinese philosopher.

Study the past if you would divine the future.
Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.

James Connolly (1870-1916)
Irish labour leader.

Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for "Ireland," and can yet pass unmoved through our streets and witness all the wrong and the suffering, shame and degradation wrought uponthe people of Ireland-yea, wrought by Irishmen upon Irish men and women, without burning to end it, is, in my opinion, a fraud and a liar in his heart, no matter how he loves that combination of chemical elements he is pleased to call Ireland.
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 


Joseph  Conrad (1857-1924)


The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


William  Cowper (1731-1800.)


But war 's a game which were their subjects wise / Kings would not play at. 


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


John Philpot  Curran (1750-1814)
Speech upon the Right of Election, 1790 


It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 


George William  Curtis (1824-1892)
US editor, orator and literary figure.


A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


John E E  Dalberg, Lord Acton  (1834-1902 )
The History of Freedom in Antiquity


The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)


There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.


The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Aubrey T.  de Vere 
Irish poet of the 18th century


Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926)
Note: Debs received one million votes in 1920 as candidate for US President, while serving a 10 year jail sentence for having said this first quote in June 1918


Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder...the master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.


I would no more teach children military  training than teach them arson, robbery, or  assassination.


The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.


When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


John Dewey (1859-1952)
U.S. philosopher, educator; 


The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Thomas Dibdin (1771-1841)
The snug little Island.


Oh, it 's a snug little island 
 A right little, tight little island. 		 
 


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Paul  Dickson (       -)
The Essential Explanations


The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam era were named 'Bambi', 'Infant', 'Daisycutter', 'Grasshopper', and 'Agent Orange'. Nor is the trend new: from the past we have 'Mustard Gas'', 'Angel Chasers' (two cannonballs linked with a chain for added destruction) and 'The Peacemaker' to name but a few.)


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 


Denis Diderot (1713-1784)


Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.


Distance is a great promoter of admiration.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Benjamin  Disraeli (1804-1881)


Finality is not the language of politics


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


James  Douglass 


The first thing to be disturbed by our commitment to nonviolence will not be the system but our own  lives.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


John Dryden (1631-1700)
English poet.


Beware the fury of a patient man.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Francis  Duffy  (1871-1932)
American priest, Sermon for memorial service, New York City.


No soldier starts a war---they only give their lives to it. Wars are started by you and me, by bankers and politicians, newspaper editors, clergymen who are ex-pacifists, and Congressmen with vertebrae of putty. The youngsters yelling inthe streets, poor lads, are the ones who pay the price.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 


John Foster  Dulles (1888-1959)
War or Peace 1950. 


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 potentialities, particularly the moral and spiritual potentialities, which we usually reserve for war.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


Jack  DuVall 


Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future.


  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 


G Dyer 


This is a picture of the British High Command at the beginning of World War I.These aren't evil men -- some of them aren't even stupid.