57 Quotes by 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.

The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as President, lived for more than thirty years after the White House; Truman, who worked intensely and gaily, lived for twenty.

I don’t think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.