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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been…

— 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

The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law…

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

There are certain things that we can accomplish by law and there are certain things that we cannot accomplish by law or…

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for…

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I…

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

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…

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is…

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

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…

— Alfred Whitney Griswold