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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (/ˈʃlɛsɪndʒər/; born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual. The son of the influential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. and a specialist in American history, much of Schlesinger's work explored the history of 20th-century American liberalism. In particular, his work focused on leaders such as Harry S. Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy. In the 1952 and 1956 presidential campaigns, he was a primary speechwriter and adviser to the Democratic presidential nominee, Adlai Stevenson II, both times. Schlesinger served as special assistant and "court historian" to President Kennedy from 1961 to 1963. He wrote a detailed account of the Kennedy administration, from the 1960 presidential campaign to the president's state funeral, titled A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, which won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

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Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.

Good, Important, Solution, Struggle, Trying, Vain

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

Democracy, Policy, Presidential, Preventive, War

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

Clarity, Language, Thought, Writing

The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.

Economy, Libertarian, Long, Mixed, Socialism

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.

Courage, Individual, Knowledge, Learning, Life, Things

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

Disease, History, Occupational, Passion, Tidiness

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!

Intellectual, Intuition, Excellence, Take, Highest, Standards

It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going , so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.

Conception, Knowing, Lost, Memories, Nation, Past

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

Becomes, Ends, Form, History, Irony

History is full of surprises.

Full, History, Life, Surprise, Surprises

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

Habit, Reaction, Reactions, Television

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.

Continue, Dream, Individual, Memories, Revenge, Tradition

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

Humorlessly, Long, President, Time, White, Years

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

Important, Answers, Important Questions, Answer, Susceptible, Precisely

The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to imposethe views of the revolutionists upon the British government and large sections of the colonial population at whatever cost to freedom of opinion or the sanctity of life and property.

Military, War, Struggle, Actually, Armed

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

Deception, Dissent, Irreverence, Needs, Platitudinous

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

Past, Remember, Aphorism, Condemned, Repeat

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

Change, Consciousness, Habit, Revenge, Rush

The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

Discovery, World, Quests, Quest

The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.

Corruption, History, Mean, Use

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