Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities of a globe, a round earth in which all the directions eventually meet, in which there is no center because every point, or none, is center - an equal earth which all men occupy as equals. The airman's earth, if free men make it, will be truly round: a globe in practice, not in theory.
Archibald MacLeishOnce 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.
Archibald MacLeishDemocracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.
Archibald MacLeishThe only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.
Archibald MacLeish