The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
Interpretation
A true conservative is someone who genuinely cares about injustices and prepares for accountability.
Franklin D. Roosevelt emphasizes that a true conservative is not merely someone who adheres to tradition, but rather an individual who is deeply concerned about social injustices and proactively considers the consequences of inaction. This perspective highlights a moral responsibility to acknowledge wrongs and strive for a more just society.
In practice
In a speech about human rights, one might say, 'As Franklin D. Roosevelt stated, the true conservative cares for injustices and prepares for accountability.'
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.
People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.
As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.
Those who believe for a while make only a brief tour in the kingdom, though thereafter they often feel qualified to inform those who know even less about the Church; but the fact is they were really only tourists - not natives who really knew the kingdom's countryside.
Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?
Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also the larger dimension of our being.
I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
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