Arthur M. Schlesinger
Arthur M. Schlesinger
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Sr.was an American historian who taught at Harvard University, pioneering social history and urban history. He was a Progressive Era intellectual who stressed material causesand downplayed ideology and values as motivations for historical actors. He was highly influential as a director of PhD dissertations at Harvard for three decades, especially in the fields of social, women's, and immigration history. His son, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., also both taught at Harvard and was a noted historian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth27 February 1888
CountryUnited States of America
Arthur M. Schlesinger quotes about
What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go is right?
Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.
Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap,
The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue...
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.
In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.
There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
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!
Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.