“Where public opinion is free and uncontrolled, wealth has a wholesome respect for the law.”
Robert M. La Follette Sr. (1855–1925) American politician
"Fooling the People as a Fine Art", La Follette's Magazine (April 1918)
“There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.”
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