The Capacity For Hope Is The Most

The Library Is Not A Shrine For The Worship Of Books. It Is Not A Temple Where Literary Incense Must Be Burned Or Where One's One Devotion To The Bound Book Is Expressed In Ritual. A Library, To Modify The Famous Metaphor Of Socrates, Should Be The Delivery Room For The Birth Of Ideas - A Place Where History Comes To Life.

The Conquest Of War And The Pursuit Of Social Justice... Must Become Our Grand Preoccupation And Magnificent Obsession.

Cynicism Is Intellectual Treason.

The Only Security For The American People Today, Or For Any People, Is To Be Found Through The Control Of Force Rather Than The Use Of Force.

History Is A Vast Early Warning System.