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.
Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid.
Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.
I knew from history that war comes with frightening regularity, often fought over the same ground and similar causes as previous conflicts.
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.
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