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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.

Could Hamlet Have Been Written By A Committee, Or The "mona Lisa" Painted By A Club? Could The New Testament Have Been Composed As A Conference Report? Creative Ideas Do Not Spring From Groups. They Spring From Individuals. 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.

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.

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.

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?