James H. Billington Quotes

• Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us.

  James H. Billington

  Intellectual, Important, Liberty

  James H. Billington (1991). “The Intellectual and Cultural Dimensions of International Relations: Present Ironies and Future Possibilities”

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• Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like that of discovery itself. Libraries are our base camp.

  James H. Billington

  Reading, Adventure, Discovery

  James H. Billington (1988). “Books and the world”

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• Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the oral legends of a tribe: dream keepers.

  James H. Billington

  Dream, Special, Legends

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