A. Whitney Griswold Quote

"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."

by:	A. Whitney Griswold (1909-1963)
Source:	New York Times, 24 February 1959
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Categories:	Censorship, Constitution, Knowledge, Oppression, Press, Prohibition, Proverbs, Speech, Truth, Wisdom
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-- Joe, Rochester, MI
A. Whitney was wrong on this one, otherwise we would know the [relatively recent] secrets of the Mayans and Aztecs. The Spanish inqusitors did one helluva job [in the name of God] of destroying for all time what we may have learned and benefitted from.  -- Larry B., North Bergen
-- Mike, Norwalk
That may be, but to destroy information, is to destroy the discoveries of perhaps generations. When the library of Alexandria was burned, the fields of science were sent back centuries. I agree that the Truth will ever make its way known, but censorship can definitely push it back.  -- E Archer, NYC
Better ideas: the social security recipient has informed you the whole time of this covid-19 circumstances being a total terrorist act against our environment in the form of a complete fraud by the status quo. Now as typical of criminals it has reversed the condition and made it look like the social security recipient promotes the fraud by being part the only faction of the environment still wearing masks, namely federal buildings like the social office. Federal buildings must stop mask wearing immediately.  -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown

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