Let History Be Our Guide Into The Future

Our nation is quickly heading towards a state of crisis. Our freedoms seem to be under constant assault. We are so quick to trade in our liberty for safety and security. Our economy is in shambles. Our morals have been swept to the wayside. Our youth have lost respect. Our government is corrupt. Our national security is in jeopardy from things like illegal immigration. America's principles and traditions that it was founded upon are being twisted, perverted, forgotten and in some cases completely destroyed.

Our world's history is the greatest gift handed to us; it is our blueprint to follow or to alter. We must learn these lessons from our past as to avoid the pitfalls of the future. We do this so our children do not look back at us and wonder what happened and why we were so quick to fail them.

Below is a quote from my grandfather's book that was published over 50 years ago. It is amazing that certain truths hold true no matter how long ago they were written and sometimes are even more evident now then they were in the past.

"History likes to hide; it hides in the faded memories of the past and the delusions of our own minds. It is a guessing game, an illusion, a deception. Its laws cannot be seen for the theories, nor the theories for the facts and the facts themselves are deceitful. Historical reality is our only guide; without it we are stupid to hope for culture, promise or survival,"

Joseph Emerson Newton
Years of Destruction, Circa 1959

-Blogging4Bullion