All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess. (Martin Van Buren)

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

Martin Van Buren

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