Just in case you’re feeling pleased with yourself because—finally!—if we elect Obama, it will reflect the America you dream of and everybody will love us again, here’s a little something to make you think:
Americans should not fall in love with their own virtue, and should not expect non-Americans to take that virtue on faith.
That was Reinhold Niebuhr in The Irony of American History (Scribner, 1952).
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