We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.
We are all afraid for our confidence for the future for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man every civilization has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
In rising financial markets the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present but only for the future where streams of revenue play in his imagination.
We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion we are going to destroy this nation.
The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis the balance of power war and peace and the economic future of the next generation.
As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The question of armaments whether on land or sea is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent more basic to human life human beings what we feel about each other what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.
If Germany thanks to Hitler and his successors were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
Taste refers to the past imagination to the future.
By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.