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Archibald MacLeish
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Archibald MacLeish
Age: 89 †
Born: 1892
Born: May 7
Died: 1982
Died: April 20
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There are those, I know, 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.
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Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.
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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.
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Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world.
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See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.
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There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.
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America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.
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Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.
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The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.
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How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when it is attacked by authoritarian dogma. Always, in the final act, by determination and faith.
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As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.
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History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.
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