Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

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

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

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

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.

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

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

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!

Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.