Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing our shared heritage as a nation built by immigrants and those who sought change.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's quote reminds us that the foundation of our society is rooted in the contributions of immigrants and revolutionists, suggesting that every individual has a rich legacy of struggle and resilience. It calls for appreciation of this shared history, urging us to honor those who have fought for freedom and progress, thereby reinforcing our connection to one another and our common origins.
In practice
During a citizenship ceremony, reminding new citizens of their shared heritage.
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.
Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.
Why are some things remembered and others forgotten? That is the theme I want to pursue about the Second World War.
In Brazil, the history of the interaction between blancos and indios - whites and Indians - often reads like an extended epitaph. Tribes were wiped out by disease and massacres; languages and songs were obliterated.
Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition.
No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power.
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