Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems tha…

- James H. Billington

Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like…

- James H. Billington

Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the oral legends …

- James H. Billington