I have heard arguments ... in favor of pardoning D. M. Bennett, convicted of sending obscene matter through the mails, viz., a pam...phlet [by Ezra Hervey Heywood] of a polemical character in favor of free love. While I am satisfied that Bennett ought not to have been convicted, I am not satisfied that I ought to undertake to correct the mistakes of the courts--constantly persisted in--by the exercise of the pardoning power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This I do know and can say to you: Our country is in more danger now than at any time since the Declaration of Independence. We do...n't dare follow the Lindberghs, Wheelers and Nyes, casting suspicion, sowing discord around the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt. We don't want revolution among ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yes, but what are all these guises, aspects presentations? Only manifestations of what we all are at different times, according to... how these needs are pulled out of us. I write in these bald words the deepest lessons of my life, the truest substance of what I have learned. I am not only a Chronicler of Zone Three, or only partially, for I also share in Al*Ith's condition of being ruler insofar as I can write of her, describe her. I am woman with her (though I am a man) as I write of her femaleness--and Dabeeb's. I am Ben Ata when I summon him into my mind and try to make him real. I am ... what I am at the moment I am that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent--a charac...ter in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This genera...tion of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the field of world policy I would dedicate this Nation to the policy of the Good Neighbor--the neighbor who resolutely respects... himself and, because he does, respects the rights of others--the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agreements in and with a world of neighbors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[N]o combination of dictator countries of Europe and Asia will halt us in the path we see ahead for ourselves and for democracy....... The people of the United States ... reject the doctrine of appeasement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yesterday, December 7, 1941Ma date that will live in infamy--the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked b...y naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once I prophesied that this generation of Americans had a rendezvous with destiny. That prophecy now comes true. To us much is giv...en; more is expected. This generation will nobly save or mainly lose the last best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous just. A way, which if followed, the world will forever applaud, and God must forever bless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The peace loving nations must make a concerted effort in opposition to those violations of treaties and those ignorings of humane ...instincts which today are creating a state of international anarchy and instability from which there is no escape through mere isolation or neutrality.... When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »