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.
We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
Properly speaking, all true work is religion.
For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?
All religions and cultures suffer from sources that preach hate against the 'other.' Throughout history some have, tragically, practiced what their sources preached, while some have sought to dismiss or even counteract the hateful words of their sources.
You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.
In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands of seeds, and when they look at the bare hills, they may be able to see the sunflowers already. The sunflowers are there. They lack only the conditions of sun, heat, rain and July. Just because we cannot see them does not mean that they do not exist.
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