Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple an…

Winston Churchill
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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 repetition of history. ✨ Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963, Atheneum
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