21 Quotations by Archibald MacLeish
- 1. A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
- 2. A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard-by stealing wha ...
- 3. America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.
- 4. Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason, either in football or in poetry, why the tw ...
- 5. Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is ...
- 6. Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.
- 7. I think you have to deal with the confused situation that we're faced with by seizing on the glimpse ...
- 8. It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and t ...
- 9. Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happ ...
- 10. Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties whe ...
- 11. The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations an ...
- 12. The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it ...
- 13. The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the ...
- 14. There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing ...
- 15. There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind ...
- 16. To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is t ...
- 17. We are as great as our belief in human liberty -- no greater. And our belief in human liberty is onl ...
- 18. What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great ...
- 19. What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of ...
- 20. What is more important in a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that i ...
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