America Quote by Karen DeCrow

America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I think the public library system is one of the most amazing American institutions. Free for everybody. If you ever get the blues about…

— David McCullough

At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach good citizenship.…

— Kevin Mattson

I do believe that education should become as close to free as possible.

— Sal Khan

An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.

— Thomas Jefferson

We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes…

— Alan Keyes

Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

— Oprah Winfrey

“We cannot teach citizenship if we are not citizens; we cannot free others if we have forgotten the appetite of freedom. Education is only…

— G.K. Chesterton

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when…

— Nicholas Meyer

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

— Mark Twain

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.

— James E. Rogers

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.

— Laura Bush