Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
853
AUTHOR:
John Buchan (1875–1940)
QUOTATION:
History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.
ATTRIBUTION:
JOHN BUCHAN, general introduction to The Nations of Today, a series of popular histories published in 1923–1924 under Buchan’s editorship. Each work contained Buchan’s introduction.—Great Britain, vol. 1, p. 12 (1923).
