We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.
Interpretation
True peace comes only when everyone enjoys freedom; it cannot be achieved by sacrificing others' rights.
Franklin D. Roosevelt emphasizes that genuine and lasting peace is not attainable if it requires the oppression or denial of freedom to others. This quote highlights the interdependence of peace and freedom, suggesting that for one to exist authentically, the other must also thrive without compromise.
In practice
In a speech advocating for human rights, one could use this quote to emphasize the importance of collective freedom.
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.
What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even through the warm caring smile of a person who may otherwise seem ugly and rude. In such miraculous but extremely fragile moments, another dimension transpires through our reality. As such, the Absolute is easily corroded;it slips all too easily through our fingers and must be handled as carefully as a butterfly
In time of war, the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers.
The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.
It boggles my mind that the same people who cry βfoulβ about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people β elders, the poor, the disabled β who are least able to bear them.
It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.
Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.
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