In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Interpretation
True freedom is not given to us; we must earn it through our actions and choices.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's quote highlights the idea that freedom is not a gift that can be handed down or given to individuals. Instead, true freedom requires effort, struggle, and the proactive pursuit of one's own rights and liberties, emphasizing personal responsibility and agency in attaining genuine freedom.
In practice
This quote can inspire discussions in a classroom about the nature of freedom and personal agency.
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.
I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can't not be what everyone says I am. But I don't feel like an icon.
Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.
If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."
That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman
I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's.
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