List of Alfred Whitney Griswold Quotes

Liberal Learning Is Both A Safeguard Against False Ideas Of Freedom And A Source Of True Ones.

Things Have Got To Be Wrong In Order That They May Be Deplored.

It Is A Barren Kind Of Criticism Which Tells You What A Thing Is Not.

A Socrates In Every Classroom.

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?

This Man, Comrades, Has A Nice Smile, But He Has Iron Teeth.

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 Courage And Strength To Express Themselves In Magnanimity And Charity, And This Is The Place We Must Find.

There Will Be Certain Things In A Man That Have To Be Won, Not Forced; Inspired, Not Compelled.

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. We Cannot Legislate Intelligence. We Cannot Legislate Morality. Nor Can We Legislate Loyalty, For Loyalty Is A Kind Of Morality.

Books Won't Stay Banned. They Won't Burn. Ideas Won't Go To Jail.

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 That Constitute The Good Life. All Are Essential To Democracy. All Are Proof Against Its Enemies.

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, 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.