Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man. Archibald MacLeish dignityfreedomman Change image and share on social
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 businesscallconfusion Change image and share on social
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 americandreamfreedom Change image and share on social
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 happenjournalismman share on social
What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists. Archibald MacLeish existfactimportant Change image and share on social
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Archibald MacLeish alternativechoicechoose Change image and share on social
Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England. Archibald MacLeish americanblindcity share on social
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 absurdbadlyidea share on social
You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames. Archibald MacLeish burncityfelt Change image and share on social
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 beliefgreathuman Change image and share on social
