Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing stru…

- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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…

- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost…

- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush…

- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism wh…

- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.