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Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
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
Arthur Schlesinger Jr
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
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Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.
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History is, indeed, an argument without end.
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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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There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
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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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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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Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
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Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
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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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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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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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History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.
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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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Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.
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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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