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Archibald MacLeish on Freedom

1892–1982 United States

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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.

When liberty is headlong girl
And runs her roads and wends her ways
Liberty will shriek and whirl
Her showery torch to see it blaze.
When liberty is wedded wife
And keeps the barn and counts the byre
Liberty amends her life.
She drowns her torch for fear of fire.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Archibald MacLeish (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.