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[Quote No.24705] Need Area: Friends > General
"If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men [and women] reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all — except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty." - John F. Kennedy
Thirty-Fifth President of the United States (1961-1963).
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[Quote No.24707] Need Area: Friends > General
"Live as if everything you do will eventually be known." - Hugh Prather
Author, minister and counselor who is most famous for his first book 'Notes to Myself'
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[Quote No.24710] Need Area: Friends > General
"If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded." - Thomas Carlyle
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[Quote No.24722] Need Area: Friends > General
"A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest [and most life-affirming] monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection..." - Mark Twain
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[Quote No.24734] Need Area: Friends > General
"Freedom is, always and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently." - Rosa Luxemburg
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[Quote No.24736] Need Area: Friends > General
"A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." - James Madison
Fourth President of the United States (1809-1817).
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[Quote No.24737] Need Area: Friends > General
"It can be no accident that there is no wealthy developed country today that is information-poor, and no information-rich country that is poor and undeveloped." - Mahathir Mohammed
(1948- ), Argentinian-Canadian writer, editor and critic
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[Quote No.24742] Need Area: Friends > General
"Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions." - Nelson Mandela
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[Quote No.24745] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available. [That is why freedom of speech and the press and lack of censorship is so vital to informed choice, democracy and science.]" - Thomas Mann
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[Quote No.24747] Need Area: Friends > General
"...[public] libraries...exist because we believe that memory and truth are important. They exist because we believe that information and knowledge are not the exclusive domain of a certain type or class of person but rather the province of all who seek to learn. A democratic society holds these institutions in high regard." - Robert Martin
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[Quote No.24749] Need Area: Friends > General
"The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be afresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist - this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul - a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know." - Margaret Mead
Anthropologist
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[Quote No.24751] Need Area: Friends > General
"The library can become a big factor in raising the level of intelligence in the country and in developing leaders. It can also play a large part in bolstering the faith of individuals who feel frustrated and upset by the tremendous problems that face the world. The more complex the world grows, the more necessary it is to spread the knowledge and wisdom to be found in books." - Edith Patterson Meyer
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[Quote No.24756] Need Area: Friends > General
"Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission." - Toni Morrison
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[Quote No.24759] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is clear that censorship is not a cut and dried issue. There is a danger in thinking it is, for then the debate falters and understanding ends. We must realize that censorship will be with us always. It is a weapon to protect the order of society and the peace of communities. However, it is a two-edged sword and must be handled with care and caution…[to]…ensure that both sides of the debate remain alive. If the censorship side predominates, truth and moral progress suffer; if the anti-censorship side predominates, the drift to selfishness and anarchy presents a clear danger to the cohesion and order of the social system, the destruction of which brings us to barbarism, tyranny, and the loss of all freedom." - S.D. Neill
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[Quote No.24761] Need Area: Friends > General
"Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning." - Louis Nizer
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[Quote No.24770] Need Area: Friends > General
"No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library..." - Lawrence Clark Powell
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[Quote No.24775] Need Area: Friends > General
"The public library is a great equalizer." - Keith Richards
Musician
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[Quote No.24776] Need Area: Friends > General
"It seems to me that...a library is in itself an act of faith. To bring together the records 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. Roosevelt
(1882-1945) Thirty-second President of the United States (1933-1945). Quoted from remarks at the dedication of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, June 30, 1941.
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[Quote No.24777] Need Area: Friends > General
"Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free. Such things did not need as much emphasis a generation ago, but when the clock of civilization can be turned back by burning libraries, by exiling scientists, artists, musicians, writers and teachers; by disbursing universities, and by censoring news and literature and art; an added burden is placed on those countries where the courts of free thought and free learning still burn bright. If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
(1882-1945) Thirty-second President of the United States (1933-1945).
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[Quote No.24784] Need Area: Friends > General
"[in society]...change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy." - Bertrand Russell
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[Quote No.24786] Need Area: Friends > General
"I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries." - Carl Sagan
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[Quote No.24792] Need Area: Friends > General
"The public library has been historically a vital instrument of democracy and opportunity....history has been greatly shaped by people who read their way to opportunity and achievements in public libraries." - Arthur Meier Schlesinger
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[Quote No.24796] Need Area: Friends > General
"No libraries, no progress." - Williard Scott
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[Quote No.24817] Need Area: Friends > General
"People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle [which is still very helpful] and more time on the buses and in the subway. [getting to understand people better.]" - Simeon Strunsky
(1879-1948), American essayist, born in Vitebsk, Russian Empire (present day Belarus).
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[Quote No.24834] Need Area: Friends > General
"The right of freedom of speech and press includes not only the right to utter or to print, but the right to distribute, the right to receive, [and] the right to read..." - United States Supreme Court
Grisold v. Connecticut
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[Quote No.24864] Need Area: Friends > General
"The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society." - Edward Asner
Actor
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[Quote No.24867] Need Area: Friends > General
"I am here because libraries and museums are singular and important institutions with unique contributions to make to our [or any] nation. But more importantly, I am here as an advocate for children and families, for healthy communities, for economic development, for scholars and researchers, for individuals who seek educational and informational resources throughout their lives." - Robert Martin
Former U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services Director
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[Quote No.24869] Need Area: Friends > General
"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation." - Walter Cronkite
Broadcaster
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[Quote No.24871] Need Area: Friends > General
"Public libraries...represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over." - James A. Michener
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[Quote No.24873] Need Area: Friends > General
"Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission. No committee decides who may enter, no crisis of body or spirit must accompany the entrant. No tuition is charged, no oath sworn, no visa demanded. Of the monuments humans build for themselves, very few say touch me, use me, my hush is not indifference, my space is not barrier. If I inspire awe, it is because I am in awe of you and the possibilities that dwell in you." - Toni Morrison
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[Quote No.24878] Need Area: Friends > General
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." - Emily Dickinson
(1830-1886), American Poet
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[Quote No.24883] Need Area: Friends > General
"He who never sacrificed...a personal [good] to a
general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors." - Olympia Brown
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[Quote No.24884] Need Area: Friends > General
"Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good." - Calvin Coolidge
Thirtieth President of the United States (1923-1929).
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[Quote No.24889] Need Area: Friends > General
"You must not fight too often [or too long] with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war. [Alternatively you need to keep changing and improving your methods.]" - Napoleon Bonaparte
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[Quote No.24890] Need Area: Friends > General
"Freedom without obligation is anarchy. Freedom with obligation is democracy." - Earl Riney
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[Quote No.24900] Need Area: Friends > General
"And so this is Xmas for black and for white,
for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight." - John Lennon
Musician
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[Quote No.24915] Need Area: Friends > General
"Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another." - Plato
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[Quote No.24920] Need Area: Friends > General
"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong." - Sophocles
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[Quote No.24925] Need Area: Friends > General
"The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes." - Stanley Kubrick
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[Quote No.24926] Need Area: Friends > General
"WAR IS PEACE - FREEDOM IS SLAVERY - IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. [Beware this kind of propaganda which tries to make black into white and white into black!]" - George Orwell
(1903 - 1950), British journalist and author, who wrote two of the most famous novels of the 20th century - 'Animal Farm' and 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' [which is where this quote comes from]
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[Quote No.24928] Need Area: Friends > General
"Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both." - Tryon Edwards
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[Quote No.24930] Need Area: Friends > General
"All of the significant battles [between good and evil] are waged within the self. [and they determine our character and ultimately how history will remember us.]" - Sheldon Kopp
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[Quote No.24934] Need Area: Friends > General
"He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it." - Pierre Charron
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[Quote No.24944] Need Area: Friends > General
"He that does good to another, does good also to himself, not only in the consequences, but in the act; for the consciousness of well-doing is, in itself, ample reward." - Seneca
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[Quote No.24947] Need Area: Friends > General
"A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so." - Walter Lippmann
1889 - 1974) Influential American writer, journalist, and political commentator.
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[Quote No.24949] Need Area: Friends > General
"Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men." - Walter Lippmann
(1889 - 1974) Influential American writer, journalist, and political commentator.
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[Quote No.24950] Need Area: Friends > General
"Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark." - Walter Lippmann
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[Quote No.24952] Need Area: Friends > General
"When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists." - Walter Lippmann
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[Quote No.24972] Need Area: Friends > General
"Virtue alone has majesty in death." - Edward Young
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[Quote No.24988] Need Area: Friends > General
"Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to pursue his own happiness in any way that he chooses. No one has the authority to grant rights to anyone else, because human beings already possess all natural rights at birth. These rights include both personal and economic freedoms, and the only way they can be lost is if someone takes them away by force. The only right that an individual does not naturally possess is the right to violate someone else's liberty." - Robert Ringer
Best-selling author of motivational books, public speaker, and advocate for liberty and libertarian
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