Democracy Quote by Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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 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

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honorable part of a man's possessions. A library is not a luxury. It is one…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Bill Moyers

“More than a building that houses books and data, the library has always been a window to a larger world--a place where we've always…

— Barack Obama

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

— Wendell Ford

“But the library - especially one so vast - is no mere cabinet of curiosities; it's a world, complete and uncompleteable, and it is…

— Matthew Battles

I can think of few more worthy achievements than keeping a library alive and well for a century. As far as I am concerned,…

— Gillian Roberts

“Libraries are a kind of communism which the least revolutionary among us may be proud to advocate.”

— Joseph Chamberlain

“I count it a mistake of our mistaken democracy, that every man who can read print is allowed to believe that he can read…

— D.H. Lawrence

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

— Henry Ward Beecher