Once 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.

Quote by Archibald MacLeish

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Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone...

Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone...

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be...

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be...

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in...

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in...

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in...

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in...

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the...

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the...

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the...

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the...

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence...

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence...

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom...

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom...

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of...

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of...

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we...

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we...

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else -...

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else -...

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence...

To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence...

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man...

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man...

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else -...

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else -...

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not...

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not...

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same...

Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same...

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself...

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself...

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived...

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived...