"It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you."

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Source : "Honoria". Essay by Taylor Caldwell (1957), republished in "The New American", Volume 19, No. 20, October 6, 2003.

Taylor Caldwell

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