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Quotes by Historian
"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."
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"For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours."
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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
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"Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment."
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"When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase."
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"Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death."
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"The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all."
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"Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation."
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"We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it."
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"Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life."
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"Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction."
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"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."
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"To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault."
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"A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better."
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"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."
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"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
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"A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot."
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"I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer."
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"Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize."
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"America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution."
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"As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind."
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"Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend."
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"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."
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"Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years."
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"As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way."
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"We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey."
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