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Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes

Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny Picture Quote #1

People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise Picture Quote #1

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution Picture Quote #1

Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself! Picture Quote #1

The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for enthusiastic justifications for slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, and genocide... Moreover, religion enshrined hierarchy, authority, and inequality... It was the age of equality that brought about the disappearance of such religious appurtenances as the auto-da-fe and burning at the stake Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer Picture Quote #1

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue Picture Quote #1

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war Picture Quote #1

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Righteousness is easy in retrospect Picture Quote #1

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are Picture Quote #1

The purpose of democratic statecraft is, or should be, to find the means of ordered liberty in a world condemned to everlasting change Picture Quote #1

We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money Picture Quote #1

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office Picture Quote #1

All wars are popular for the first 30 days Picture Quote #1

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History is full of surprises Picture Quote #1

History is, indeed, an argument without end Picture Quote #1

Honest history is the weapon of freedom Picture Quote #1

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual Picture Quote #1

The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history Picture Quote #1

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results Picture Quote #1

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Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes) 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 Quotes) In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes) Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself! (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes) The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for enthusiastic justifications for slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, and genocide... Moreover, religion enshrined hierarchy, authority, and inequality... It was the age of equality that brought about the disappearance of such religious appurtenances as the auto-da-fe and burning at the stake (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes) 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 (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes) 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 (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes) Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes) Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes) What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes) 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 (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes) There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes) Righteousness is easy in retrospect (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes) Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes) The purpose of democratic statecraft is, or should be, to find the means of ordered liberty in a world condemned to everlasting change (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes) 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 Quotes) The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes) All wars are popular for the first 30 days (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes) History is full of surprises (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes) History is, indeed, an argument without end (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes) Honest history is the weapon of freedom (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes) For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes) The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes) Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results (Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Quotes)