It seems to me that the dedication of a library is an act of faith. To bring together the resources of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. it must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.
Franklin D. RooseveltIf you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.
Franklin D. Roosevelt