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.
It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was justified on the ground that the Japanese were potentially disloyal, the record does not disclose a single case of Japanese disloyalty or sabotage during the whole war.
India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.
History had been man's effort to accomodate himself to what he could not do. Amereican history in the 20th century would, more than ever before, test man's ability to accomodate himself to all the new things he could do.
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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