Laura Bush Quotes

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.

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

The public library is the great equaliser.

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities.

Libraries really are the gates to the future.

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

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

You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

Education is there to help our children negotiate the world and understand the communities they're a part of. We owe it to them to provide them with the best information we can to live their lives happily, safely, and without discrimination.

In Liverpool, where I live, we have a brilliant library which has been refurbished, and I like going there.

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of #‎ libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

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

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

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

Libraries were full of ideas-perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.

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

A library implies an act of faith.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.