For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share
Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share
The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share
The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share
In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share
In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share
There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share
If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share
The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to imposethe views of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share
Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share
There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share
