The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
Interpretation
The U.S. Constitution is adaptable and innovative in governing a diverse nation.
Franklin D. Roosevelt emphasizes the remarkable flexibility and resilience of the U.S. Constitution, which allows it to address various challenges and changes in society while maintaining the core principles of governance. This elasticity enables the Constitution to remain relevant and effective as the nation evolves over time.
In practice
In a discussion about the effectiveness of the U.S. government, this quote can highlight the Constitution's ability to adapt.
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.
If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.
If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God.
I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later._x000D_ There is not much hurry._x000D_ If in day to day life you lead a good life, honesty, with love,_x000D_ with compassion, with less selfishness,_x000D_ then automatically it will lead to Nirvana.
I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .
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