Wendell H. Ford famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.
I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library.
Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.
Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy
growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.
As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.
We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

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