The real safeguard of democracy is education.
Interpretation
Education is essential for the protection and functioning of democracy.
Franklin D. Roosevelt emphasizes that education is crucial for preserving democracy. It equips citizens with the knowledge and critical thinking skills necessary to make informed decisions, engage in civic duties, and hold leaders accountable. Without a well-informed populace, democracy can falter as individuals may not recognize their rights or understand the implications of political actions.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of funding education initiatives.
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.
For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.
There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.
If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.
Adults, who outnumber kids four or five to one, are in charge. We wield the resources, run the world, and completely thwart kids' creativity.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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