Library Quote by Matt Finch

When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is…

— Arthur Curley

“Libraries represent the sole contemporary American institution with the potential for making available a wide-ranging, genuinely diverse spectrum of opinions, cultural expressions, and ideas…

— Sanford Berman

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 are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

— Janis Ian

“I grew up in libraries, and I hope I've learned never to take them for granted. A thriving library is the heart of its…

— Josie Brown

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

— Susan Orlean

“Libraries are like houses of worship: Whether or not you use them yourself, it's important to know that they are there. In many ways…

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

“If we didn't already have libraries, they would now have to be invented. They are the keys to American success in fully exploiting the…

— James Billington

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

— Bell Hooks

The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races,…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Libraries are a force for good. They wear capes. They fight evil. They don’t get upset when you don’t send them a card on…

— Libba Bray

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