12 Quotes by Archibald MacLeish
- Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.
- Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.
- There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.
- Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.
- There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.
- To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers.
- Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.
- We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
- You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.
- What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.
- We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
- What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
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