"The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a……" — Arthur Hertzberg
"The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!"
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Arthur Hertzberg
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19 Quotes by Arthur Hertzberg
Arthur Hertzberg has 19 quotes on this site.
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What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates?…
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I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.
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A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without…
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But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises…
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How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.
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In mid-career, I was at one and the same time the rabbi of a major congregation, writing books, and teaching…
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On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the…
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When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views…
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You save your soul by saving someone else's body.
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Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish…
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I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand.
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I write to tell my grandchildren where they come from, and what their grandparents were up to, and I hope…
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More Assured Quotes
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If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary…
— Edward Bach
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
— Russell Baker
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Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.
— Max Baucus
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We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but…
— Mortimer Adler
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left…
— Sitting Bull
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Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.
— Tony Campolo
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If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not…
— Maurice Chevalier
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Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be…
— Lawrence Hargrave
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The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves…
— John Playfair
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If we are right with the Lord, then, as we face adversity, we can be assured that we will be…
— Ronald E. Poelman
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