FDR: “none of us can guess the future”, so let’s start securing copies of our best stuff.

One Response to FDR: “none of us can guess the future”, so let’s start securing copies of our best stuff.

1. AK says:

   August 30, 2013 at 7:22 am

   Noble, altruistic, inspiring, and echoing Jefferson’s words from 1791:
   “…let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.”

   –Thomas Jefferson to Ebenezer Hazard, Philadelphia, February 18, 1791. In Thomas Jefferson: Writings: Autobiography, Notes on the State of Virginia, Public and Private Papers, Addresses, Letters, edited by Merrill D. Peterson. New York: Library of America
   http://jdc.jefferson.edu/

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