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| What is more important in a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists. | Archibald Macleish | 1892-1982, American Poet | | America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them. | Archibald Macleish | 1892-1982, American Poet | | It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. | Archibald Macleish | 1892-1982, American Poet | | 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. | Archibald Macleish | 1892-1982, American Poet | | 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 | 1892-1982, American Poet | | 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 | 1892-1982, American Poet | | 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 | 1892-1982, American Poet | | What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. | Archibald Macleish | 1892-1982, American Poet | | A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man. | Archibald Macleish | 1892-1982, American Poet | | 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 | 1892-1982, American Poet | |
| 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. | Archibald Macleish | 1892-1982, American Poet | | To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night -- brothers who see now they are truly brothers. | Archibald Macleish | 1892-1982, American Poet |
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