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.

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

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

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

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

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

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