"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 have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."
"The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion."
"I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them."[Letter to Herbert Putnam; in: Waters, Edward N.: Herbert Putnam: the tallest little man in the world; Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 33:2 (April 1976), p. 171]"