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.
No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.
Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.
Surround yourself with those who won’t compete but will revel in your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship...But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse...The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friend’s presence, is concerned with the common world.
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