Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 854 |
| AUTHOR: | Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965) |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Quoted by Senator John Tower, address delivered before the American Defense Preparedness Association, April 14, 1983.—Congressional Record, April 20, 1983, vol. 129, p. S4989 (daily edition). |
| SUBJECTS: | History |