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Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Age: 89 †
Born: 1917
Born: October 15
Died: 2007
Died: February 28
Historian
University Teacher
Columbus
Ohio
Arthur Schlesinger Jr
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Retrospect
Cheap
Righteousness
Easy
Also
Self
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The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
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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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The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.
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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.
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Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
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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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History is, indeed, an argument without end.
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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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Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
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Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
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There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.
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The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.
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Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.
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