57 Quotes by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.
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There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
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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!
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Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
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For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.
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All wars are popular for the first 30 days.
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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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Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
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To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man -- these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.
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