Book burning Quote by Alfred Whitney Griswold

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

Alfred Whitney Griswold

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

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

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

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If appeasing our enemies is not the answer, neither is hating them… Somewhere between the extremes of appeasement and hate there is a place…

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The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources… They enlarge his capacity for…

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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…

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Certain things we cannot accomplish... by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. No, and we cannot legislate loyalty,…

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

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A Socrates in every classroom.

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

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Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

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People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

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