Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
463
AUTHOR:
Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)
QUOTATION:
There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.
ATTRIBUTION:
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH, “We Have Purpose … We All Know It,” Life, May 30, 1960, p. 93.
This was one of a series of essays in Life magazine and The New York Times on “The National Purpose.”
