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If libraries didn't exist, and someone tried to invent them, I am confident that conservatives would fight them tooth and nail with a thousand bad reasons.
Just mention that Benjamin Franklin invented libraries, and they might shut up.
Ha! That communist?! /s
One of the favorite and often mis-quoted lines for right-wingers. The context here is kind of funny, since it's basically pro-taxation.
I do like misquoting it though to promote privacy, but that has nothing to do with the actual context of the quote.
You say this like they aren't doing it already, filing complaints against hundreds of books at a time that none of them have read