Memorial Day 2011

The world is a dangerous place to live, 
not because of the people who are evil, 
but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
— Albert Einstein

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.  
— Dwight Eisenhower, 1953 speech 

I object to violence because  when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. — Mohandas Gandhi

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.
— Max Lucade 

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that, one of these days, governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. 
— Dwight D. Eisenhower