Keith Richards Quotes

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Libraries are community treasure chests, loaded with a wealth of information available to everyone equally, and the key to that treasure chest is the library card. I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.

In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.

In Liverpool, where I live, we have a brilliant library which has been refurbished, and I like going there.

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

Give education and knowledge to the common people.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one — but no one at all — can tell you what to read and when and how.

In some ways I grew up in the public library in Troy, Michigan.

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their own complete collections, or those who need a computer, or kids who need a safe place to read after school, or moms with toddlers who want their babies to learn to read, can all come together and share in a great community resource.

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

It's the best gift any teacher could possibly get, to go back to where you came from and offer knowledge and camaraderie.

Education is there to help our children negotiate the world and understand the communities they're a part of. We owe it to them to provide them with the best information we can to live their lives happily, safely, and without discrimination.

The public library is where I studied. It's where my grandfather taught himself English.

Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.