“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” is usually attributed to George Santayana. Harry Truman’s version was: “The only new thing in the world is the history we have not learned.” And, in the House of Commons in 1935, Winston Churchill observed: “…that long, dismal catalogue of the fruitlessness of experience and the confirmed unteachability of mankind. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
