“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”
Education“Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.”
Faith“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”
Education“Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.”
Religion“It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.”
Time“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”
Strength“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.”
Hope“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
Happiness“Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.”
Art“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”
Politics“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.”
History“Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.”
Faith“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Fear“Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.”
Future“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
Education“Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.”
Future“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.”
Peace“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”
Government“There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.”
Good“If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.”
Work“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
Men“Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.”
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