More from Alfred Whitney Griswold

  1. Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.
  2. It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
  3. 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 los…
  4. 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 u…
  5. 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 conferen…
  6. There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

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