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

- Alfred Whitney Griswold

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

- Alfred Whitney Griswold

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

- Alfred Whitney Griswold

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

- Alfred Whitney Griswold

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…

- 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 onl…

- Alfred Whitney Griswold

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…

- Alfred Whitney Griswold

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…

- Alfred Whitney Griswold

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

- Alfred Whitney Griswold