Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Quotes

There Is Far Less To The Presidency, In Terms Of Essential Activity, Than Meets The Eye.

Few Secret Undertakings Ever Did Any Nation Any Good.

Anti-intellectualism Has Long Been The Anti-semitism Of The Businessman.

Almost All Important Questions Are Important Precisely Because They Are Not Susceptible To Quantitative Answer.

Troubles Impending Always Seem Worse Than Troubles Surmounted, But This Does Not Prove That They Really Are.

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

The Very Discovery Of The New World Was The By-product Of A Dietary Quest.

Brave Men Earn The Right To Shape Their Own Destiny.

Every President Reconstructs The Presidency To Meet His Own Psychological Needs.

Man Generally Is Entangled In Insoluble Problems; History Is Consequently A Tragedy In Which We Are All Involved, Whose Keynote Is Anxiety And Frustration, Not Progress And Fulfilment.

For History Is To The Nation As Memory Is To The Individual.

Santayana's Aphorism Must Be Reversed: Too Often It Is Those Who Can Remember The Past Who Are Condemned To Repeat It.