Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of…

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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...

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...

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...

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a...

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a...

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...

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our...

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns...

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns...

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...

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...

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...

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel...

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel...

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw...

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw...

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always...

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always...