[Repeal The 17th]

TO: Adam Kinzinger

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
...George Santayana-1905 (not Churchill)

[KarlInOhio]

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The Life of Reason, Volume 1, Chapter 12, Flux and Constancy in Human Nature by George Santayana

Santayana's full quote is far more than a mere admonition to remember history.