In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are den...ied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up-...-or else all go down--as one people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We do not fear censorship for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liber...ty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue--the same liberty that is conceded to the art of the written word, that art to which we owe the Bible and the works of Shakespeare.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the k...nowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast, a society which neglects its children, however well it may function in other respects, risks eventual disorganization and demise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are,--1. Security to possessors;... 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The cla...ims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sti...cker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment--anywhere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »