If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Be a lifelong student, read as many books as possible.

It is a good thing for the uneducated man to read books of quotations.

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.