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The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

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The purpose of democratic statecraft is, or should be, to find the means of ordered liberty in a world condemned to everlasting change.

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

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

[F]ascism and communism are clearly more like each other than they are like anything in between.

Fascists were not conservative in any very meaningful sense... in a meaningful sense, were revolutionaries.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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