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.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.

I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy.

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

By mutual respect, understanding and with good will we can find acceptable solutions to any problems which exist or may arise between us.