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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
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Columbus
Ohio
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For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.
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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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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 broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible mixed economy, thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.
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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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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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There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
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Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.
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Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
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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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Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
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The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.
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History is, indeed, an argument without end.
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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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Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.
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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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There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.
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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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The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
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History is full of surprises.
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