“The representative who loses touch with his constituents loses office, but the representative who sacrifices the national trust to local prejudice or to the changing winds of popular opinion betrays all the people for some of the people.” PoliticsLeadershipLiesPrejudice Book:The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America Source: The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America
“The only way to make a library safe is to lock people out of it. As long as they are allowed to read the books 'any old time they have a mind to,' libraries will remain the nurseries of heresy and independence of thought. They will, in fact, preserve that freedom which is a far more important part of our lives than any ideology or orthodoxy, the freedom that dissolves orthodoxies and inspires solutions to the ever-changing challenges of the future. I hope that your library and mine will continue in this way to be dangerous for many years to come.” IdeasFreedomBooksThoughtLibraries Book:American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America Source: American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America
“Every age has its own separatists. They are the intransigents, the undeviating purists who have to be right whatever the cost, who would sacrifice the world rather than compromise their own righteousness.” Inflexibility Author:Edmund S. Morgan