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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
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Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.
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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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History is, indeed, an argument without end.
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Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
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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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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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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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There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
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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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The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
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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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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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Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
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Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
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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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Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.
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The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.
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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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