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Quote from Franklin D. Roosevelt,


"We all know that books will burn --
yet we have the greater knowledge
that books cannot be killed by fire.
People die, but books never die.
No man and no force can abolish memory..."


By:

Franklin D. Roosevelt (more quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt or books by/about Franklin D. Roosevelt)


(1882-1945), 32nd US President

Source:

Message, American Booksellers Association, 23 April 1942

Categories:

Censorship, Death, Knowledge, Persecution, President, Press

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