Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world.

May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more.

The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences.

The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions-must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency.

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

Unless we progress, we regress.