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Re: Quotes re archives



Two quotes that are on my office door:

"There is nothing more useful for instructing and teaching men, nothing
more necessary for clearing up and illustrating obscure matters, nothing
more necessary for conserving patrimonies and thrones, all things public
and private, than a well constituted store of volumes and documents and
records--as much better than navy yards, as much more efficacious than
munitions factories, as it is finer to win by reason rather than by
violence, by right than by wrong."

                -- Baldassare Bonifacio, "Des Archivis," 1632

"Citizens!  Protect monuments, buildings, objects and documents from former
times.  All of these are your history and your pride.  Remember that this
is the basis upon which our new art shall flourish!"

                -- Vladimir Lenin, November 1917

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Eric Hillemann
Carleton College Archivist
Gould Library / One North College Street / Northfield, MN 55057
(507) 646-4270

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