"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
Winston Churchill said this variation:
"Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it"
Obama: 'Peace in Our Time'
by JOEL B. POLLAK 22 Jan 2013
It was either an embarrassing slip, or a frightening revelation of the president’s true worldview. Either way, the words “peace in our time,” made infamous by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain as he promised an illusory peace with Adolf Hitler in 1938, should never have been in President Barack Obama’s second inaugural address. ...
The phrase appeared in a passage on foreign policy, in which [Obama] pledged to defend the nation while resolving differences peacefully [emphasis added]:
And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice--not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes: tolerance and opportunity; human dignity and justice.
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