The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.
Interpretation
A true conservative is someone who genuinely cares about injustices and prepares for accountability.
Franklin D. Roosevelt emphasizes that a true conservative is not merely someone who adheres to tradition, but rather an individual who is deeply concerned about social injustices and proactively considers the consequences of inaction. This perspective highlights a moral responsibility to acknowledge wrongs and strive for a more just society.
In practice
In a speech about human rights, one might say, 'As Franklin D. Roosevelt stated, the true conservative cares for injustices and prepares for accountability.'
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.
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.
I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
Sometimes the silence can be like thunder.
Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.
I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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