Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Edito...rialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our security depends on the Allied Powers winning against aggressors. The Axis Powers intend to destroy democracy, it is anathema ...to them. We cannot provide that aid if the public are against it; therefore, it is our responsibility to persuade the public that aid to the victims of aggression is aid to American security. I expect the members of my administration to take every opportunity to speak to this issue wherever they are invited to address public forums in the weeks ahead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you shall not deal with them as a creditor; you shall not exact interest fr...om them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the thro...ng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And Reason kens he herits in A haunted house. Tenants unknown... Assert their squalid lease of sin With earlier title than his own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a ne...w lease of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasiona...lly lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »