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A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

   In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
   The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world.
   The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world.
   The third is freedom from want — which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants — everywhere in the world.
   The fourth is freedom from fear — which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor — anywhere in the world.
   That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1941-01-06) to Congress, Annual Message (State of the Union), “Four Freedoms,” Washington, D. C.

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A quotation from Russell

The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life, and when by means of great wealth homo sapiens can gratify all his whims without effort, the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. The man who acquires easily things for which he feels only a very moderate desire concludes that the attainment of desire does not bring happiness. If he is of a philosophic disposition, he concludes that human life is essentially wretched, since the man who has all he wants is still unhappy. He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 2 “Byronic Unhappiness” (1930)

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A quotation from Montaigne

Poverty of goods is easy to cure, poverty of soul impossible.
 
[La pauvreté des biens, est aisée à guerir, la pauvreté de l’ame, impossible.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 3, ch. 10 “Of Managing the Will [De mesnager sa volonté]” (1586) (3.10) (1595) [tr. Frame (1943)]

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WIST Quotations · Essays, Book 3, ch. 10 "Of Managing the Will [De mesnager sa volonté]" (1586) (3.10) (1595) [tr. Frame (1943)] - Montaigne, Michel de | WIST QuotationsPoverty of goods is easy to cure, poverty of soul impossible. [La pauvreté des biens, est aisée à guerir, la pauvreté de l’ame, impossible.] In context, "poverty of the soul" is given by Montaigne, not as a moral failing, but as the soul-felt sense of poverty, of not having enough,…
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