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The pendulum of history swings in centuries," and a single term of the great office weighed little in view of the perils that surely awaited a failure to secure peaceful adjustment.
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Adlai Stevenson
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Editor's note · Context
Stevenson uses the metaphor of a pendulum to illustrate the long-term significance of historical events over individual political terms.
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