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: | This was one of a series of essays in Life magazine and The New York Times on “The National Purpose.” |
| SUBJECTS: | Dreams |