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The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger
Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy
also cheap, — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
also cheap, — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
History is full of surprises.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
His peroration, no doubt
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism' is his original sin.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Righteousness is easy in retrospect.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
In Defense of the World Order ... U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Some people must dream broadly and guilelessly, if only to balance those who never dream at all.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
but also where the
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
I'm an idealist without illusions.
[Ca. 1953, attributed to John F. Kennedy by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. in 'A Thousand Days' — John F. Kennedy
[Ca. 1953, attributed to John F. Kennedy by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. in 'A Thousand Days' — John F. Kennedy
Leadership ignites the circuit between the individual and the mass and thereby alters history.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Honest history is the weapon of freedom.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
for an informed judgment
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
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.
All wars are popular for the first 30 days.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
The rising cult of ethnicity was a symptom of decreasing confidence in the American future.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
History is, indeed, an argument without end.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.