Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail..

The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his capacity for self-k….

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education..

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

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 onl….

If appeasing our enemies is not the answer, neither is hating them.... Somewhere between the extremes of appeasement and hate there is a place for co….

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale..

There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I should say most, of the things th….

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

This man, Comrades, has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth..

A Socrates in every classroom..

A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy….

Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the NewTestament have been composed as a conference report?.

There are certain things that we can accomplish by law and there are certain things that we cannot accomplish by law or by any process of government.….

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 ….

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 repor….

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not..

Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones..