Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education. — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
This man, Comrades, has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth. — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
If appeasing our enemies is not the answer, neither is hating them.... Somewhere between the extremes of appeasement and hate there is a place… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the NewTestament have been composed as a conference… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his capacity for… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Certain things we cannot accomplish... by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. No, and we cannot legislate loyalty,… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones. — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
