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Tag: Archibald MacLeish

(1892-1982) Poet, playwright, Librarian of Congress, and Assistant Secretary of State under Franklin Roosevelt

The American dream

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.

Author Greg RavenPosted on July 5, 2021Categories libertyTags Archibald MacLeish

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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