Henry Steele Commager Quotes - Page 2

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• To yearn for a single, and usually simple, explanation of the chaotic materials of the past, to search for a single thread in that most tangled of all skeins, is a sign of immaturity.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Past, Simple, Tangled

  Henry Steele Commager, Raymond Henry Muessig (1980). “The study and teaching of history”, Merrill Publishing Company

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• The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Faces, Kind, Absence

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• It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Business, Long, Political

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• History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Order, History, Surprise

  Henry Steele Commager, Raymond Henry Muessig (1980). “The study and teaching of history”, Merrill Publishing Company

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• And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Philosophy, Believe, People

  "Who is Loyal to America?". "Harper's Magazine", Vol. 195, No. 1168, September 1947.

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• Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Crazy, Son, Men

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• It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices changed sharply, and that though the standards of the nineteenth century persisted the institutions that had sustained them and the sanctions that had enforced them lost influence and authority.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Practice, Moral, Influence

  Henry Steele Commager (1961). “The American Mind”

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• What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Greatness, College, Young

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