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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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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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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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Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.
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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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History is full of surprises.
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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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The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.
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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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The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
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Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
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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 very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.
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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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Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
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Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
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History is, indeed, an argument without end.
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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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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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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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In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.
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