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By Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
- Source
- Message for American Education Week, September 27, 1938
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- The American Presidency Project (text follows the Public Papers of the Presidents)
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From Franklin D. Roosevelt's message for American Education Week, September 27, 1938, written to the teachers and patrons of American schools.