I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of regularly revisiting foundational documents like the Constitution to understand their significance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt compares the Constitution of the United States to the Bible, suggesting that both documents contain essential principles that citizens should revisit frequently for guidance and understanding. By encouraging re-reading these texts, Roosevelt highlights the necessity of engaging with the foundational ideas of democracy and justice, asserting that such knowledge is vital for informed citizenship and civic duty.
In practice
A professor might use this quote in a lecture about the importance of constitutional literacy among students.
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.
If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works...images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models - surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works - promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations.
Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.
How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
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