Certain things we cannot accomplish. . . by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot … - Alfred Whitney Griswold

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Alfred Whitney Griswold

Certain things we cannot accomplish. . . by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. No, and we cannot legislate loyalty, for loyalty is a kind of morality.

Government, Legislate, Loyalty, Morality, Things

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The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Against, Bad, Freedom Of Speech, Ideas, Libertarian, Weapon

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.

Against, Education, Fear, Path, Running, Stay

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.

College, Graduation, Philosophy, Question, Salted, Taste

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.

Hunted, Purchased, Sale, Self, Self Respect

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

Alone, Beautiful, Hunted, Inspiring, Life, Moments

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A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

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I think most people know the concept of difficult family situations. So I try to just ground a very big concept in something we can all relate to on some level.

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