Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. History Quotations

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.

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

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.