"When a country is at war we..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt
When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.
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“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.”
“They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.”
“While things on the surface seem more quiet than at any time since last summer, I do not like the maintenance of what amounts to almost full mobilization in aggressor countries. Surely they cannot afford it and if they had any definite policy of trying to work out economic salvation (except by arms) they would be showing some signs of cutting military expenditures.”
More on Unity
“Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence.”
“We must nurture tolerance, collective wisdom, and democracy.”
“As long as we separate this oneness into two we won't achieve realization.”
More on Government
“Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.”
“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”
“Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.”