“The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.” ShouldMindHeardSilentDefencePerversion Book:A Time to Speak: The Selected Prose of Archibald MacLeish Source: A Time to Speak: The Selected Prose of Archibald MacLeish
“Our reliance in this country is on the inquiring, individual human mind. Our strength is founded there; our resilience, our ability to face an ever-changing future and to master it. We are not frozen into the backward-facing impotence of those societies, fixed in the rigidness of an official dogma, to which the future is the mirror of the past. We are free to make the future for ourselves.” MindHumansCountryPastFacesIndividualAbilityMastersMirrorsResilienceFixedOfficialsHuman MindDogmaFrozenRelianceImpotenceInquiring Author:Archibald MacLeish
“The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.” MindStillsCountryAmericaJourneyEternalWest Author:Archibald MacLeish
“The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.” MenMindHorsePigs Author:Archibald MacLeish
“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.” KnowsMenMindDreamHumanityLiberationPatriotismPatrioticAmerican DreamPatriot4th Of JulyAmerican PatrioticGreat PatrioticAmerican PatriotismAmerican PatriotUsa PatrioticUsa PatriotismPatriotism And Freedom Author:Archibald MacLeish
