Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. - The Vital Center (1949)

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Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The choice we face is not between progress with conflict and progress without conflict. The choice is between conflict and stagnation. … The totalitarians regard the toleration of conflict as our central weakness. So it may appear in an age of anxiety. But we know it to be basically our central strength.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.