Santayana's Aphorism Must Be Reversed: Too Often

For Most Americans The Constitution Had Become A Hazy Document, Cited Like The Bible On Ceremonial Occasions But Forgotten In The Daily Transactions Of Life.

Expelled From Individual Consciousness By The Rush Of Change, History Finds Its Revenge By Stamping The Collective Unconsciousness With Habits And Values.

Santayana's Aphorism Must Be Reversed: Too Often It Is Those Who Can Remember The Past Who Are Condemned To Repeat It.

There Is No More Dangerous Thing For A Democracy Than A Foreign Policy Based On Presidential Preventive War.

For History Is To The Nation As Memory Is To The Individual.