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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves.

The Public is merely a multiplied “me.”

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Beauty is nature’s brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.