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Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
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.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
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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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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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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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In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.
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Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
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History is full of surprises.
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The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
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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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Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
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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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The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.
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Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
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Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.
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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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Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.
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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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What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.
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History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.
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