Quote #8

Now it is certain. There is no magic stone. No secret to be found. One must go With the mind's winnowed learning.

More from Eugene McCarthy

  1. The maple tree that night Without a wind or rain Let go its leaves Because its time had come.
  2. The glove has been thrown to the ground, The last choice of weapons made. A book for one thought. A poem for one line. A line for one word.
  3. I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.
  4. 'Broken things are powerful.' Things about to break are stronger still. The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.
  5. We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.
  6. I have left Act I, for involution And Act II. There, mired in complexity I cannot write Act III.
  7. There is only one thing to do - take it to the country!
  8. The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

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