Quotes from Eric Burns

The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center, a power base. A board room, a war room. An Oval Office for all who preside over their own destinies. One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage.

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

the most famous people in the world today don't address the world's most pressing needs. Rather, they distract us from them.They provide amusement, not sustenance. They

United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs. Let