Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women

Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson