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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
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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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Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.
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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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Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
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Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
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In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.
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Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
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