"The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with."

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Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 1, Dead Stars, p. 3, 1989.

William Pfaff

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