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

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

—Alfred Whitney Griswold

Image, There will be certain things in a man that have to be

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

—Alfred Whitney Griswold

Image, Certain things we cannot accomplish… by any process of government. We cannot

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Certain things we cannot accomplish... by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. No, and we cannot legislate loyalty, for loyalty is a kind of morality.

—Alfred Whitney Griswold

Image, A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted

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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, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.

—Alfred Whitney Griswold

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

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

—Alfred Whitney Griswold

Image, If appeasing our enemies is not the answer, neither is hating them….

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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.

—Alfred Whitney Griswold

Image, Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and

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

—Alfred Whitney Griswold

Image, Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail

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

—Alfred Whitney Griswold

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Image, Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted

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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?

—Alfred Whitney Griswold

Image, The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy

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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-knowledge and expand his opportunities for self-improvement.... They are the wellsprings of a free society.

—Alfred Whitney Griswold

Image, There are certain things in a man that have to be won,

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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.

—Alfred Whitney Griswold

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

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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 are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it

—Alfred Whitney Griswold

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

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

—Alfred Whitney Griswold

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Image, The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

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The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

—Alfred Whitney Griswold

Image, The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of adam, whether it takes ultimate

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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.

—Alfred Whitney Griswold

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

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

—Alfred Whitney Griswold

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

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In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

—Alfred Whitney Griswold