History Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The government never does anything successfully.

— Michael Badnarik

History teaches that nations do not learn from history.

— Bruce Fein

The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.

— Milton Friedman

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

— Milton Friedman

The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Governments institutionalize something for nothing.

— James Cook

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

— Aberjhani

Freedom has no history.

— Andrew Cohen

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

— George Bernard Shaw

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

— Anthony Trollope