We are the sons and daughters of the world they saved. [Now is our moment] to make common cause with other countries to ensure a w...orld of peace and prosperity for yet another generation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the great words, it seemed to Connie, were cancelled for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, ...all these great, dynamic words were half dead now, and dying from day to day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the ...only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.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 »
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 »
Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free. Such things did ...not need as much emphasis a generation ago, but when the clock of civilization can be turned back by burning libraries, by exiling scientists, artists, musicians, writers and teachers; by disbursing universities, and by censoring news and literature and art; an added burden, an added burden is placed on those countries where the courts of free thought and free learning still burn bright. If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A nationally known advertising man wrote me the other day ... to suggest that we tell the truth, i.e., that we are not concerned w...ith the affairs of the British Empire but are concerned with our own safety ... the integrity of our own continent, and the lives of our own children in the next generation. That, I think, is a pretty good line to take because it happens to be true, and it is on that line itself that we must, for ... purely selfish reasons, prevent at almost any hazard the Axis domination of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »