Arthur M Schlesinger Jr quotes

" I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938. " # Agreement # Freedom # Power

" Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are. " # Trials # Character # Achievement

" Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins. " # Solitude # Children # Words

" Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life. " # Repentance