Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Quotes

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. — American Historian born on October 15, 1917, died on February 28, 2007

Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual and was the son of the influential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. 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 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 both times, Adlai Stevenson II. 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... (wikipedia)

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.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.

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

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.