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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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Total separation of church and state was considered the best safeguard for the health of each. As [Andrew] Jackson explained, in refusing to name a fast day, he feared to 'disturb the security which religion now enjoys in this country, in its complete separation from the political concerns of the General Government.'
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History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.
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There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
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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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Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
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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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What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go is right?
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There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.
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I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.
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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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Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
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Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.
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The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
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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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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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The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.
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Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
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The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible mixed economy, thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.
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It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going , so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.
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