Friendship among nations, as among individuals, calls for constructive efforts to muster the forces of humanity in order that an atmosphere of close understanding and cooperation may be cultivated.
Interpretation
Friendship on a global scale requires collaborative efforts to promote understanding and cooperation.
In this quote, Franklin D. Roosevelt emphasizes the importance of fostering a spirit of friendship not only among individuals but also among nations. He suggests that such relationships thrive on mutual understanding and cooperation, which necessitate deliberate and constructive efforts from all involved parties to build a better world through collaboration and shared humanity.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about international relations to highlight the need for collaboration.
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.
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.
We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can't remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.
That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party.
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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