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For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.
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.
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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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Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
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What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.
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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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Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
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Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
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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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The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
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The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.
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In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.
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History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.
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Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.
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Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
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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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