This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that the current generation is destined to face significant challenges and opportunities that will shape their future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's quote implies that the events and actions taken by people in this generation will significantly impact the course of history. It highlights the idea that individuals have a role in shaping their destiny, and that every generation faces unique challenges that require courage and commitment to overcome.
In practice
In a speech about youth empowerment, this quote could inspire young people to take action today for a better tomorrow.
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.
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.
What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
β¦gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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