Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

I think the greatest danger of the promise of space travel is that it can lead us to be cavalier about the world we live on, if we assume we can find or make more worlds. I think in our lifetimes we surely will not, probably in the lifetimes of our great-great-grand-descendants we will not.

Popular Topics
Lives, Thing, Dream, Comfortable, Ideas, Feeling, Justice, Journey, Name, Football, Story, Beauty, Things, Acknowledge, Reality, Dance, Mother'S Day, Poet, Heart, Movie Love, Important, Wisdom, Afternoon, Period, Character, Kind, Jesus, Gossip, Alien, Success, Kindness, Leadership, Wonderful, America, Glory, Life Is Like, Involve, Motor, Education, Think, Secret, Gold, Difference, Inspiring, Achievement, Light, Drama, Amazing Music, Fitness, Ocean
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.

Diversity, Justice, Likely, People, System, Wrong
Same Author Quotes

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

Freedom, History, Honest, Weapon, Weapons

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

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 first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

Believe, Democracy, Leader, Leaders, Rule

I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.

Errors, Essay, Graduate, Name, Names, Writing
Similar Quotes