"I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utili...

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~












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