The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.
Interpretation
True victory comes from democracy and education, which empower people against ignorance and oppression.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's quote emphasizes that the foundational triumph for humanity lies in the establishment of democracy paired with education. He asserts that democracy is key to ensuring that individuals are not subjected to perpetual ignorance or bondage, suggesting that these two elements are essential for the advancement of society and individual freedoms.
In practice
In a discussion on the importance of civic engagement during a political campaign.
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.
A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.
Theodore Roosevelt's policy to build a two-ocean navy confirmed that the old-style isolationism of the founders had not survived the modern, increasingly globalized world.
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals
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