The best road to progress is freedom's road.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news--that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.

[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor.

[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]