"Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action……" — Winston Churchill

"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

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