I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of regularly revisiting foundational documents like the Constitution to understand their significance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt compares the Constitution of the United States to the Bible, suggesting that both documents contain essential principles that citizens should revisit frequently for guidance and understanding. By encouraging re-reading these texts, Roosevelt highlights the necessity of engaging with the foundational ideas of democracy and justice, asserting that such knowledge is vital for informed citizenship and civic duty.
In practice
A professor might use this quote in a lecture about the importance of constitutional literacy among students.
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.
Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.
The difference between the novice and the master is simply that the novice has not learnt, yet, how to do things in such a way that he can afford to make small mistakes. The master knows that the sequence of his actions will always allow him to cover his mistakes a little further down the line. It is this simple but essential knowledge which gives the work of a master carpenter its wonderful, smooth, relaxed, and almost unconcerned simplicity.
I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.
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