Griswold, Alfred Whitney (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 inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
-- 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 inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
-- 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 inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
-- 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

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
-- 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 comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it.
-- Alfred Whitney Griswold

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