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 only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.”

“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 conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam.”

“Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals.”

“In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.”

“The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources... They are the wellsprings of a free mind at liberty in a free society.”

“A university is not a reading room, a lending library, a training school, or a research institute. It is a community of scholars.”

“There is a book in every one of us.”