To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.
Interpretation
Different generations face distinct challenges and expectations.
This quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt highlights the disparities between generations in terms of opportunities and responsibilities. It suggests that while some generations may benefit from certain advantages, others are burdened with higher expectations to perform and contribute, reflecting the cycles of privilege and responsibility that define human society.
In practice
In a speech addressing young leaders, one might say, 'As Franklin D. Roosevelt once noted, to some generations much is given, and it is our duty to rise to the expectations placed upon us.'
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.
Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.
One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.
People ask me what's the most important function when you're starting an organization or setting up the kind of culture and values that are going to endure. The discipline I believe so strongly in is H.R., and its the last discipline that gets funded.
I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president's wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.
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