From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.
It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.
In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world.
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.