The Council Against Intolerance today made public a message from President Roosevelt endorsing the aims of the Council’s nationwide Independence Day ceremony and asserting that the principles of tolerance and equality embodied in the Declaration of Independence must be preserved as “our most precious heritage out of the past.” The President’s message follows:
“It seems to me especially fitting that on Independence Day we should renew our fealty to the principles of tolerance and equality forever embodied in our Declaration of Independence. Our fathers not only embodied these principles in the immortal Declaration but saw to it also that they were written into the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These principles are as sacred to us today as they have been to the American people through all the decades since they became part of our national tradition. It is ours to preserve them as our most precious heritage out of the past and to transmit them inviolate to those who are to follow us.”
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