Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us. — James H. Billington Copy Share Image
Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the oral legends… — James H. Billington Copy Share Image
Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten… — James H. Billington Copy Share Image
Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure… — James H. Billington Copy Share Image
