Some presidential libraries are so celebratory that they verge on propaganda.

Roosevelt was a big collector -- stamps, models. His whole house was brimming with stuff.

It amazes me how they rewrite history, and they get away with it.

Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

Libraries are our friends.

The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or library, is to look at his books. One gets a notion very speedily of his tastes and the range of his pursuits by a glance round his book-shelves.