They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, n...either shall they learn war any more.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to gove...rn this nation. This difficult effort will be the "moral equivalent of war," except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restori...ng that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A stag of warrant, a stag, a stag, A runnable stag, a kingly crop,... Brow, bay and tray and three on top, A stag, a runnable stag.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 »
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 »
Our policy is to give all possible material aid to the nations that still resist aggression across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.... And we make it abundantly clear that we intend to commit none of the fatal errors of appeasement. We have the thought that in this nation of many states we have found the way in which men of many racial origins may live together in peace. If the human race as a whole is to survive, the world must find a way by which men and nations may live together in peace. We cannot accept the doctrine that war must be forever a part of man's destiny.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for... a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seemed like this was one big Prozac nation, one big mess of malaise. Perhaps the next time half a million people gather for a p...rotest march on the White House green it will not be for abortion rights or gay liberation, but because we're all so bummed out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »