For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical experience, as of personal experience, are contingent. They teach the consequences of certain actions, but they cannot force a recognition of comparable situations.
