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There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Speech accepting renomination, Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia (27 June 1936)
- America
- History
If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Speech before the Colorado Live Stock Association, Denver, Colorado (August 29, 1910); in The New Nationalism (1910), p. 52
- Nature
Happiness can not come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)
- Happiness
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me? the State may be given up for lost.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778The Social Contract (1762), Book III, Chapter XVIn context
- Government
- Politics
Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive and flourish is owed not just to ourselves, but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
Carl Sagan1934–1996Who Speaks for Earth? [Episode 13], 54 min 25 sec
- Nature
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part! And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop!
Mario Savio1942–1996Speech at Sproul Hall, University of California, Berkeley (2 December 1964)
- Freedom
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965Kulturphilosophie (1923), Vol. 2: Civilization and Ethics
- Morality
It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965Out of My Life and Thought (1931), Epilogue
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXXVII: Some arguments in favor of the simple life, Line 30
Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.
Robert W. Service1874–1958The Cremation of Sam McGee (1907)In context
- Honor
Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act I, scene ii.In context
The time is out of joint. O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene V, spoken by HamletIn context
- Time
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act I, Scene II, spoken by EdmundIn context
- Luck
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), #25
- Liberty