Quote by Archibald MacLeish
There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of human

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. – Archibald MacLeish

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

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Poetry
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Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there. – Archibald MacLeish

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A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. – Bill Vaughan

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“Our country, right or wrong.” When right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right. – Carl Schurz

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Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. – John Gunther

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We sleep peacefully at night, cradled by the big strong hands of America. – Val Saintsbury

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