If God is God, he is not good. If God is good, he is not God. - Archibald MacLeish

Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world. And their manners were their own business. And so were their politics. And so, but ten times so, were their souls.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty — no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

What is more important in a library than anything else — is the fact that it exists.