"America, for once in its brief and not always glorious history, must try to learn that its own experience is peculiar in world history, that it has been unusually fortunate in coming to maturity in an epoch of untypical peace and prosperity, and that it cannot continue to judge the world by the norm of its own mythology."
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Samuel T. Francis
1947 – 2005
Samuel Todd Francis (1947–2005), known as Sam Francis, was an American writer and political theorist. He was a columnist and editor for the Washington Times, would later become a "dominant force" on the Council of Conservative Citizens, and was chief editor of the council's newsletter, Citizens Informer.
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