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A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call 'democracy' is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright The Future of Architecture (1953)

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It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

Lecture to the Chicago Women's Aid (1918)

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Architecture is the triumph of Human Imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

My Favorite Quotations (1990)

Get the habit of analysis- analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

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