Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing
evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and
read every book, as long as any document does not offend our own ideas of
decency. That should be the only censorship.
How will we defeat communism unless we know what it is, what it teaches,
and why does it have such an appeal for men, why are so many people
swearing allegiance to it? It's almost a religion, albeit one of the nether
regions.
And we have got to fight it with something better, not try to conceal the
thinking of our own people. They are part of America. And even if they
think ideas that are contrary to ours, their right to say them, their right
to record them, and their right to have them at places where they're
accessible to others is unquestioned, or it's not America.
—Dwight David Eisenhower
>From the remarks of the President of the United States at the Dartmouth
College Commencement, June 14, 1953. Courtesy of Dartmouth College
Library.
>From the ALA 
