All Alfred Whitney Griswold Quotes
- 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… Always Lost
- Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a… Adam
- Certain things we cannot accomplish... by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. No, and we cannot legislate loyalty, for… Accomplish
- This man, Comrades, has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth. Comrade
- Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored. Deplored
- It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. Barren
- Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail Banned
- A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste… Body
- The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge… Art
- A Socrates in every classroom. Classroom
- Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones. Both
- The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. Bad
- 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 us… Alone
- In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. Always Lost
- The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or… Adam
- 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… Always Lost