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«We have learned the answers, all the answers:/ It is the question that we do not know.»
«Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation.»
«To see the earth as we now see it, small and blue 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.»
«Poets are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.»
«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.»
«America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.»
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
American history, History of the world, The Americans
«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.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
citadel, citadels, moment of silence, rightness, The Citadel
«You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.»
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