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• 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…
• Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been…
• Certain things we cannot accomplish... by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. No, and we cannot…
• This man, Comrades, has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth.
• Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.
• It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
• Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail
• A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for…
• The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his…
• A Socrates in every classroom.
• Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.
• The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

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