Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge dead facts. Libraries on the other hand are full of them.

Libraries are not made they grow.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

To a historian libraries are food shelter and even muse.

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.