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Self-righteousness in retrospe...

Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap,

Artur Shlizinger 59 quotes

The very discovery of the New ...

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

Artur Shlizinger 59 quotes

The first rule of democracy is...

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

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Economists are about as useful...

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

Artur Shlizinger 59 quotes

The only President who clearly...

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

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Politics in a democracy is, at...

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

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Every President reconstructs t...

Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.

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There is far less to the Presi...

There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

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What higher obligation does a ...

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?

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Few secret undertakings ever d...

Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.

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To say that there is a case fo...

To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man -- these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its

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Liberalism regards all absolut...

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...

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If we are to survive, we must ...

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.

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Expelled from individual consc...

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

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Anti-intellectualism has long ...

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

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Science and technology revolut...

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

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When lies must be told, they s...

When lies must be told, they should be told by subordinate officials. At no point should the president be asked to lend himself to the cover operation. There seems to me merit in Secretary Rusk's suggestion that someone other than the president make the final decision and do so in his absence -- someone whose head can later be placed on the block if things go terribly wrong.

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twilight of the imperial presi...

twilight of the imperial presidency.

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Her mother was an overwhelming...

Her mother was an overwhelming force, ... Her father was emphatic and imperious.

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She was a quiet revolutionary ...

She was a quiet revolutionary on behalf of all women,

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