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.
The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world.
Don't believe the hype; don't believe what it tells you on your driver's license. You are an extension of the power that created this whole universe.
Were I asked to focus the New Testament message in three words, my proposal would be ADOPTION THROUGH PROPITIATION, and I do not expect ever to meet a richer or more pregnant summary of the gospel than that.
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction. Murder within the species on an individual or collective scale is a phenomenon unknown in the whole animal kingdom, except for man, and a few varieties of ants and rats.
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
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