The future of nations cannot be frozen … cannot be foreseen. If we are going to accomplish anything in our time we must approach our problem in the knowledge that there is nothing rigid or immutable in human affairs. History is a story of growth decay and change. If no provision no allowance is made for change by peaceful means it will come anyway and with violence.
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it…. This concept enables people to live together not as nations but as the human race.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts foreign ideas alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
We are a nation of many nationalities many races many religions bound together by a single unity the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another seeks to degrade all nationalities.
Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive. As for the Pyramids there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile and then given his body to the dogs.
Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God to obey His will to be grateful for His benefits and humbly to implore His protection and favor and; Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint committee
Once again this nation has said there are no dreams too large no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach.
To expect a nation to be ignorant and free is to expect something which never has been and never can be.
CANNON n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries
A thousand years scarce serve to form a state: An hour may lay it in the dust.
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
The future of nations cannot be frozen … cannot be foreseen. If we are going to accomplish anything in our time we must approach our problem in the knowledge that there is nothing rigid or immutable in human affairs. History is a story of growth decay and change. If no provision no allowance is made for change by peaceful means it will come anyway and with violence.
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small statesIsrael Athens Florence Elizabethan England.
It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it…. This concept enables people to live together not as nations but as the human race.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts foreign ideas alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
Small nations are like indecently dressed women they tempt the evil-minded.
We are a nation of many nationalities many races many religions bound together by a single unity the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another seeks to degrade all nationalities.
In a nation ruled by swine all pigs are upwardly mobile.
Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive. As for the Pyramids there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile and then given his body to the dogs.
Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God to obey His will to be grateful for His benefits and humbly to implore His protection and favor and; Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint committee
The nations honor is dearer than the nations comfort; yes than the nations life itself.