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History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.
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
University Teacher
Columbus
Ohio
Arthur Schlesinger Jr
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
Arthur M. 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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In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.
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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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The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.
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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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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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Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.
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Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
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Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
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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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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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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.
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History is, indeed, an argument without end.
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