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
Law, Finger, Adam, Leaps
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.
- Alfred Whitney Griswold
Burn, Go, Books, Banned
A Socrates in every classroom.
- Alfred Whitney Griswold
Classroom, Every, Socrates
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
Bad, Always, Sure, Censor
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
- Alfred Whitney Griswold
Imagination, Better, Weapon, Bad Ideas
It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
- Alfred Whitney Griswold
Kind, Which, Tells, Barren
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