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For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Age: 89 †
Born: 1917
Born: October 15
Died: 2007
Died: February 28
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Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
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Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.
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Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
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Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
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Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
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Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.
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I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.
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For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.
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Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.
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Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).
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There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.
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In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.
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Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
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People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.
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Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
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If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
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