Author: Archibald MacLeish

Quotes

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.

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.

- Archibald MacLeish

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

- Archibald MacLeish

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

- Archibald MacLeish

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

- Archibald MacLeish

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.

- Archibald MacLeish

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

- Archibald MacLeish

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

- Archibald MacLeish

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

- Archibald MacLeish

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.

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.

- Archibald MacLeish

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