Capable Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.

— Doris Lessing

“I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing…

— Franklin Delano Roosevelt

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

— Bill Moyers

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute…

— Doris Lessing

Our democracy should not be undermined.

— Penny Mordaunt

Democracy is an insecure landscape.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

— George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have…

— H.L. Mencken

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.

— Wendell H. Ford

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology,…

— Walt Whitman

“Democracy has a habit of making itself generally disagreeable by asking the powers-that-be at the most inconvenient moment whether they are the powers-that-ought-to-be”

— James Russell Lowell