Adam Quote by Alfred Whitney Griswold

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

This man, Comrades, has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

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

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

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

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

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

Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

A Socrates in every classroom.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold