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

A Socrates in every classroom.

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

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 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.

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.