Society and the World

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

We face the arduous days that lie before us in the warm courage of national unity.

I have seen war … I hate war.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

Is there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now.

I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,

A l’aurore, armés d’une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides villes.

Memory says: Want to do right? Don’t count on me.

Rent is that portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.

An evil empire.

She floats, she hesitates; in a word, she’s a woman.

Fay ce que vouldras.

Fay ce que vouldras.

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic, corrupt press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic, corrupt press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Died some, pro patria,

Died some, pro patria,

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.