"When the situation was manageable it was neglected, and now that it is
thoroughly out of hand, we apply too late the remedies which then might
have effected a cure. There is nothing new in the story. It is as old as
the Sibylline books. It falls into 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 repetition of
history." --Winston Spencer Churchill, May 2, 1935
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