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- Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.
- R. D. Hitchcock
- Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what is called socialism.
- Richard T. Ely
- We always prefer war on our terms to peace on someone else's.
- Author Unknown
- The greatest paradox of them all is to speak of "civilized warfare."
- Author Unknown
- War is cruel and you cannot refine it.
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- Wars begin in the minds of man, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
- U Thant
- War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
- The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- It is when we all play safe that we create a world of the utmost insecurity.
- Dag Hammarskj÷ld
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