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 better ideas.

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.

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 a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

Books wont stay banned. They wont burn. Ideas wont go to jail. In the long run of history the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

A Socrates in every classroom.