We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.

Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world." Winston Churchill Christmas Eve Message, 1941 as printed in "In the Dark Streets Shineth.

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

Nothing ever invented can you a bigger life than a book.

Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.