Book Quote by Thomas Jefferson

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books…

— Courtney Milan

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as…

— John Ruskin

I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would…

— Garry Disher

I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I…

— Karin Slaughter

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized…

— James A. Michener

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

— Cecil B. DeMille

Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a reading device,…

— Scott Turow

What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in…

— Aaron Swartz

“I think a free library is an outrageous perk. I think being able to take out 50 books at a time is an astounding…

— Don Borchert

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