Destruction Is Easy For Humans But Creation

Books Are Messengers Of Freedom. They Can Be Hidden Under A Mattress Or Smuggled Into Slave Nations.

The Mind Is A Vagrant Thing.... Thinking Is Not Analogous To A Person Working In A Laboratory Who Invents Something On Company Time.

What Is More Natural In A Democratic Age Than That We Should Begin To Measure The Stature Of A Work Of Art-especially Of A Painting-by How Widely And How Well It Is Reproduced?

American Civilization, From Its Beginnings, Had Combined A Dogmatic Confidence In The Future With A Naive Puzzlement Over What The Future Might Bring.

In America, Communities Existed Before Governments. There Were Many Groups Of People With A Common Sense Of Purpose And A Feeling Of Duty To One Another Before There Were Political Institutions.