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There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
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
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
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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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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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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 very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.
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For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.
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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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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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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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Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.
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History is, indeed, an argument without end.
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There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.
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Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.
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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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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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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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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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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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