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…

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

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

A Socrates in every classroom.

A Socrates in every classroom.

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The...

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The...

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

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

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

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

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

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

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

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

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

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