America Quote by Ben Sasse

Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by…

— Marshall Herskovitz

“Still, it strikes me that, taken together, they do make an argument, and it is this: the rise of American democracy is bound up…

— Jill Lepore

Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“America’s Founders understood literacy as a prerequisite for freedom and our form of self-government. Once we know how to read, what we read matters.…

— Ben Sasse

The American people don't read.

— Allen Dulles

As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

— Karin Slaughter

The more we see the founders as humans the more we can understand them.

— David McCullough

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

— Brad Henry

I believe that only through a truly educated citizenry can the ideals that inspired the Founding Fathers of our nation be preserved and perpetuated.

— David O. McKay

“Thomas Jefferson. . . knew what schools were for--to ensure that citizens would know when and how to protect their liberty. . . It…

— Neil Postman

I contend that no book figured more prominently than the Bible in the political thought of these patriots we call the founders.

— Daniel L Dreisbach

As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that…

— Os Guinness