Community Quote by Lady Bird Johnson

The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they…

— Kate Mosse

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but…

— Doris Lessing

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

— Bill Moyers

I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers.

— Moshe Safdie

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Doris Lessing

No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns…

— Karin Slaughter

The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our…

— Vartan Gregorian

Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents and children…

— Barack Obama

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office,…

— Andrew Carnegie

“A library is more than a brick and mortar building filled with delicious books. It is also a community of people who live to…

— ALA

The public library is where place and possibility meet.

— Stuart Dybek