What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it. (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)

What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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