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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.
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
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Columbus
Ohio
Arthur Schlesinger Jr
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
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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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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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There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
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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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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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Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
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In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.
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History is, indeed, an argument without end.
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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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There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.
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Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
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Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
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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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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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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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Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
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