Historical Quote by Adam Weishaupt

By reading we discover our world, our history, and ourselves.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

We can read the paper or current magazines and learn about national and world events, think about controversial subjects, learn how to disagree respectfully,…

— Katherine Paterson

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and…

— Michael Morpurgo

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

— Will Durant

The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races,…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The trick is to get people to read anything, to engender the love of reading. Once you can read, you can teach yourself anything.…

— Jane Cleland

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

— Katharine Hepburn

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas…

— Anonymous

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

— Brad Henry

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid…

— Edward Gibbon

Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in…

— Robert Darnton

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other…

— Tom Peters