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.
With all the other -isms that we deal with, that sort of nameless -ism that we have in too many of our hearts against the poor in this country is what wounds us most broadly.
There seems to be something in the human soul that causes us to think less of ourselves every time we do something wrong... And maybe it is good for us to feel that way. It may make us more sensitive to what we do wrong and move us to repent and grow.
Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you.
When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".
The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. _x000D_ But it is night that raises them to the stars.
We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think about. We musn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude. Nor must we forget that these old people were young once, that a lifespan is pathetically short, that one day you're twenty and the next day you're eighty.
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