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.

The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.

We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.

The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.

Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.

Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.