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A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man...  
A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an...  
America is promises to take! America is promises to us to take them.  
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in foot...  
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a ...  
Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.  
I think you have to deal with the confused situation that we're faced ...  
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for ...  
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism ...  
Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as t...  
Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come an...  
The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. T...  
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we c...  
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when h...  
There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the free...  
There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanit...  
To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set...  
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create f...  
What is more important in a library than anything else - than everythi...  
You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.