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“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 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 Fitzgerald Kennedy quotes (American 35th US President (1961-63), 1917-1963)

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“Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence”

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“Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.”

Heinrich Heine quotes (German Poet and Writer, 1797-1856)

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“You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”

Paul Sweeney quotes

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“A library is an arsenal of liberty.”

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“Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain”

John Fitzgerald Kennedy quotes (American 35th US President (1961-63), 1917-1963)

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“When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.”

Isaac Asimov quotes (Russian born American science-fiction Writer and Biochemist. 1920-1992)

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“Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.”

Nicholas Meyer quotes

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“With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.”

Doris Lessing quotes (Persian born British Novelist and short-story Writer b.1919)

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“Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

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“Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.”

Dwight David Eisenhower quotes (American 34th President (1953-61). 1890-1969)

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