Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Alexander Meiklejohn

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English philosopher Alexander Meiklejohn.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Alexander Meiklejohn was a philosopher, university administrator, educational reformer, and free-speech advocate, best known as president of Amherst College.

English - Philosopher | February 1, 1872 - December 17, 1964

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Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.

Alexander Meiklejohn

Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.

Alexander Meiklejohn

There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.

Alexander Meiklejohn

Whatever may be the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to that safety arising from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. That is the faith, the experimental faith, by which we Americans have undertaken to live.

Alexander Meiklejohn

Freedom is always wise.

Alexander Meiklejohn

Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.

Alexander Meiklejohn

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Alexander Meiklejohn

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