The Founding Fathers & the classics: the stream of classical history was one of the primary tributaries of American political thought at the time of the Founding.(History--Struggle For Freedom)

From: The New American | Date: September 20, 2004| Author: Wolverton, Joe, II | Copyright information

I have but one lamp by which my feel are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.-- Patrick Henry March 23, 1775

p Patrick Henry's view of the value of history was not unique. The men who framed our constitutional republic agreed with French author Charles Pinot Duclos, who observed: 

 
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