The illusions about the possibility of managing historical destiny from any particular standpoint in history, always involves … miscalculations about both the power and the wisdom of the managers and of the weakness and the manageability of the historical ‘stuff’ which is to be managed.
- The Irony of American History by Reinhold Niebuhr
- The Irony of American History by Reinhold Niebuhr
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