According to the President of the United States:

“The new circumstances under which we are placed call for new words, new phrases, and for the transfer of old words to new objects.”

“The man with power but without conscience, could, with an eloquent tongue . . . put the whole country into a flame.”

“Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth – to see it like it is, and tell it like it is – to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.”

Yes, these are the words of our President; or perhaps I should say, our Presidents  – Lincoln, Jefferson, Wilson, and Nixon respectively.

Solomon said it, and said it well, long before any of these leaders were born:  “Say not, what is the cause that the former days were better than these?  For you do not inquire wisely concerning this.”  (Ecclesiastes 7:10.)  And his inspired observation in the book of Proverbs, chapter fourteen and verse thirty-four, will forever stand the tests of time and timeliness:  “Righteousness exalts a nation:  but sin is a reproach to any people.”

History doesn’t merely repeat itself – at best, it replenishes; at worst, it regurgitates.